正在审查 ForgeRock（纽约证券交易所代码：FORG）和 Block（纽约证券交易所代码：SQ）

Block (NYSE:SQ – Get Rating) and ForgeRock (NYSE:FORG – Get Rating) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

59.5% of Block shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.3% of ForgeRock shares are held by institutional investors. 11.5% of Block shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 46.1% of ForgeRock shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Block has a beta of 2.35, indicating that its stock price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ForgeRock has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Block and ForgeRock, as reported by MarketBeat.

Block currently has a consensus target price of $107.27, suggesting a potential upside of 45.35%. ForgeRock has a consensus target price of $22.80, suggesting a potential upside of 13.60%. Given Block's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Block is more favorable than ForgeRock.

Profitability

This table compares Block and ForgeRock's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Block and ForgeRock's gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

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

Summary

Block beats ForgeRock on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Block

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Square, Inc. provides payment and point-of-sale solutions in the United States and internationally. The company's commerce ecosystem includes point-of-sale software and hardware that enables sellers to turn mobile and computing devices into payment and point-of-sale solutions. It offers hardware products, including Magstripe reader, which enables swiped transactions of magnetic stripe cards; Contactless and chip reader that accepts EMV chip cards and Near Field Communication payments; Chip card reader, which accepts EMV chip cards and enables swiped transactions of magnetic stripe cards; Square Stand, which enables an iPad to be used as a payment terminal or full point of sale solution; and Square Register that combines its hardware, point-of-sale software, and payments technology, as well as managed payments solutions. The company also provides Square Point of Sale software; Cash App, which provides access to the financial system, allowing customers to electronically send, store, and spend money; Caviar, a food ordering platform for restaurants to offer food ordering, pickup and delivery, to their customers; and Square Capital that facilitates loans to sellers based on real-time payment and point-of-sale data. Square, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About ForgeRock

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ForgeRock, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a digital identity platform to secure, manage, and govern the identities of customers, employees, partners, application programing interfaces (APIs), microservices, devices, and the Internet of things worldwide. It offers identity management products to automate onboarding/registration and progressive profiling, identity lifecycle and relationship management, identity provisioning and synchronization, user self-service, personalization, delegation, and privacy and consent management. The company also provides access management products, such as passwordless, usernameless, and multi-factor authentication; single sign-on; contextual and adaptive risk-based access; fine-grained authorization; API and microservices security; and secure impersonation and data sharing. In addition, it offers identity governance products, including access requests that allow users to request access to systems or applications through integration with help desk or service ticketing systems; access reviews and certifications; segregation of duties; role and entitlement management; policy management; identity workflows, which enable enterprises to connect their business processes with identity events; and reporting and analytics. Further, the company provides autonomous identity products that comprise predictive confidence scores for access; overprovisioned access detection and access revocation recommendations; outlier detection; identity automation recommendations; role mining and recommendations; joiner, mover, and leaver access automation; and automated approvals and certifications. ForgeRock, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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