Reviewing Envirotech Vehicles (NASDAQ:AZIO) & Cloudflare (NYSE:NET)
by Michael Walen · The Markets DailyCloudflare (NYSE:NET – Get Free Report) and Envirotech Vehicles (NASDAQ:AZIO – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Volatility & Risk
Cloudflare has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Envirotech Vehicles has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
82.7% of Cloudflare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.7% of Envirotech Vehicles shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of Cloudflare shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.8% of Envirotech Vehicles shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Cloudflare and Envirotech Vehicles’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Cloudflare | -8.21% | -3.88% | -0.94% |
| Envirotech Vehicles | -331.76% | -1,284.22% | -219.83% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Cloudflare and Envirotech Vehicles, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Cloudflare | 4 | 7 | 21 | 1 | 2.58 |
| Envirotech Vehicles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Cloudflare currently has a consensus price target of $321.85, indicating a potential downside of 8.88%. Given Cloudflare’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Cloudflare is more favorable than Envirotech Vehicles.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Cloudflare and Envirotech Vehicles”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Cloudflare | $2.51 billion | 49.69 | -$102.27 million | ($0.58) | -608.98 |
| Envirotech Vehicles | $5.94 million | 3.60 | -$39.13 million | ($4.90) | -0.27 |
Envirotech Vehicles has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cloudflare. Cloudflare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Envirotech Vehicles, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cloudflare beats Envirotech Vehicles on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. operates as a cloud services provider that delivers a range of services to businesses worldwide. The company provides an integrated cloud-based security solution to secure a range of combination of platforms, including public cloud, private cloud, on-premise, software-as-a-service applications, and IoT devices; and website and application security products comprising web application firewall, bot management, distributed denial of service, API gateways, SSL/TLS encryption, script management, security center, and rate limiting products. It offers website and application performance solutions, including content delivery, load balancing, DNS, agro smart routing, video stream delivery, web optimization, cache reserve, cloudfare waiting room, and cloudfare data localization suite; SASE platform through cloudfare one that provides a cloud-based network-as-a-service; network services which deliver network connectivity, security, and performance, including magic WAN, magic transit, magic firewall, cloudflare network interconnect, and spectrum. In addition, the company provides zero trust services, such as cloudflare access, cloudflare gateway, remote browser isolation, cloud access security broker, cloud email security, and data loss prevention products that protects, inspects, and provides privilege rules to grant access to data and application. Further, it provides developer-based solutions consisting of cloudflare workers, R2 object storage, workers KV, durable objects, cloudfare pages, cloudfare stream, and cloudfare images; and consumer products comprising of 1.1.1.1, a DNS resolver, WARP, a virtual private network, and cloudfare registrar that secures registration and management of domain names. The company serves customers in the technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer and retail, industrial, and non-profit industries, as well as government. Cloudflare, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
About Envirotech Vehicles
Envirotech Vehicles, Inc. manufactures and provides zero-emission electric vehicles in the United States. It offers Class 2 through logistics vans; class 4 through urban trucks, school buses, electric forklifts, street sweepers, neighborhood electric vehicles, and right-hand drive vans and urban trucks. The company also offers vehicle maintenance and safety inspection services. It serves commercial and last-mile fleets, school districts, public and private transportation service companies, and colleges and universities. The company was formerly known as ADOMANI, Inc. and changed its name to Envirotech Vehicles, Inc. in May 2021. Envirotech Vehicles, Inc. is headquartered in Osceola, Arkansas.