Contrasting authID (NASDAQ:AUID) and Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE)

authID (NASDAQ:AUID) and Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares authID and Backblaze”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
authID	$2.04 million	10.04	-$17.93 million	($1.39)	-0.91
Backblaze	$145.84 million	1.71	-$25.61 million	($0.46)	-9.04

authID has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Backblaze. Backblaze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than authID, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for authID and Backblaze, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
authID	0	0	0	0	0.00
Backblaze	2	1	6	1	2.60

Backblaze has a consensus price target of $7.21, suggesting a potential upside of 73.42%. Given Backblaze’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Backblaze is more favorable than authID.

Risk & Volatility

authID has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Backblaze has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

8.8% of authID shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.0% of Backblaze shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of authID shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Backblaze shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares authID and Backblaze’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
authID	-653.77%	-187.96%	-154.27%
Backblaze	-17.56%	-27.38%	-11.98%

Summary

Backblaze beats authID on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About authID

authID Inc. provides secure, biometric, identity verification, and strong passwordless and biometric authentication for consumer and workforce applications worldwide. The company offers solutions through its Verified platform to enable their users to easily verify and authenticate their identity through a mobile device or desktop. It provides Biometric Identity Verification, which establishes the trusted identity of users based on a variety of ground truth sources, including chip-based electronic machine-readable travel documents, national IDs, and driver's licenses; Human Factor Authentication that delivers trusted FIDO2 strong authentication for device-based passwordless login and transaction authentication that is tied to a trusted identity; Cloud-Based Biometric Multi-Factor Authentication, which provides any bank, enterprise, or government department a secure and convenient application for identity verification and transaction consent as part of any type of electronic transaction; and Identity – Portal that enables enterprises to get started with its identity products without any integration. The company also offers SEARCH, a biometric matching software for desktop fingerprint capture and image processing. The company was formerly known as Ipsidy Inc. and changed its name to authID Inc. authID Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

About Backblaze

Backblaze, Inc., a storage cloud platform, provides businesses and consumers cloud services to store, use, and protect data in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud services through a web-scale software infrastructure built on commodity hardware. It also provides Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, which enables customers to store data, developers to build applications, and partners to expand their use cases. This service is offered as a consumption-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and serves use cases, such as public, hybrid, and multi-cloud data storage; application development and DevOps; content delivery and edge computing; security and ransomware protection; media management; backup, archive, and tape replacement; repository for analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning; and Internet of Things. In addition, the company offers Backblaze Computer Backup that automatically backs up data from laptops and desktops for businesses and individuals, which provides a subscription-based Software-as-a-Service and serves use cases, including computer backup, ransomware protection, theft and loss protection, and remote access. It serves the public cloud IaaS storage and Data-Protection-as-a-Service markets. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.