Veeva Systems (NYSE:VEEV) versus Beamr Imaging (NASDAQ:BMR) Financial Comparison

Beamr Imaging (NASDAQ:BMR) and Veeva Systems (NYSE:VEEV) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.7% of Beamr Imaging shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.2% of Veeva Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Beamr Imaging shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of Veeva Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Beamr Imaging and Veeva Systems”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Beamr Imaging	$3.06 million	9.92	-$690,000.00	N/A	N/A
Veeva Systems	$2.75 billion	13.67	$525.71 million	$4.33	53.43

Veeva Systems has higher revenue and earnings than Beamr Imaging.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Beamr Imaging and Veeva Systems, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Beamr Imaging	0	0	0	0	0.00
Veeva Systems	2	8	15	0	2.52

Veeva Systems has a consensus target price of $255.28, suggesting a potential upside of 10.35%. Given Veeva Systems’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Veeva Systems is more favorable than Beamr Imaging.

Profitability

This table compares Beamr Imaging and Veeva Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Beamr Imaging	N/A	N/A	N/A
Veeva Systems	25.07%	13.56%	11.02%

Volatility and Risk

Beamr Imaging has a beta of 4.28, indicating that its share price is 328% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veeva Systems has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Veeva Systems beats Beamr Imaging on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Beamr Imaging

Beamr Imaging Ltd. provides video encoding, transcoding, and optimization solutions in the United States, Israel, and internationally. It offers a suite of video compression software encoder solutions, including Beamr 4 H.264, Beamr 4X H.264 content adaptive, Beamr 5 HEVC, and Beamr 5X HEVC content adaptive encoders; Beamr JPEGmini photo optimization software solutions for reducing joint photographic experts group file sizes; and Beamr Silicon IP block, a hardware solution for integration into dedicated video encoding application-specific integrated circuits, graphics processing units, and application processors. The company serves tier one over-the-top platforms, content distributors, video streaming platforms, and Hollywood studios. The company was formerly known as I.C.V.T Ltd. and changed its name to Beamr Imaging Ltd. in January 2015. Beamr Imaging Ltd. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

About Veeva Systems

Veeva Systems Inc. provides cloud-based software for the life sciences industry. It offers Veeva Commercial Cloud, a suite of software and analytics solutions, such as Veeva customer relationship management (CRM) that enable customer-facing employees at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies; Veeva Vault PromoMats, an end-to-end content and digital asset management solution; Veeva Vault Medical that provides source of medical content across multiple channels and geographies; Veeva Crossix, an analytics platform for pharmaceutical brands; Veeva OpenData, a customer reference data solution; Veeva Link, a data application that allows link to generate real-time intelligence; and Veeva Compass includes de-identified and longitudinal patient data for the United States. The company also provides Veeva Development Cloud, a suite of applications for the clinical, regulatory, quality, and safety functions, including Veeva Vault Clinical, Veeva Vault RIM, Veeva Vault Safety, and Veeva Vault Quality; Veeva QualityOne, a quality and document management, and training solution; Veeva RegulatoryOne, a solution that helps companies to manage regulatory submission content; and Veeva Claims addresses the end-to-end product and marketing claims management process. In addition, it offers professional and support services, including implementation and deployment planning and project management; requirements analysis, solution design, and configuration; systems environment management and deployment services; services focused on advancing or transforming business and operating processes related to Veeva solutions; data migration and systems integrations technical consulting services; training on its solutions; and ongoing managed services, such as outsourced systems administration. The company was formerly known as Verticals onDemand, Inc. and changed its name to Veeva Systems Inc. in April 2009. Veeva Systems Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.