Analyzing MariaDB (NYSE:MRDB) & Bentley Systems (NASDAQ:BSY)

MariaDB (NYSE:MRDB) and Bentley Systems (NASDAQ:BSY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

30.7% of MariaDB shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.2% of Bentley Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.1% of MariaDB shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 21.1% of Bentley Systems shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

MariaDB has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bentley Systems has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for MariaDB and Bentley Systems, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MariaDB	0	0	0	0	N/A
Bentley Systems	0	1	7	0	2.88

Bentley Systems has a consensus target price of $59.57, suggesting a potential upside of 24.76%. Given Bentley Systems’ higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bentley Systems is more favorable than MariaDB.

Profitability

This table compares MariaDB and Bentley Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MariaDB	-72.29%	N/A	-146.29%
Bentley Systems	29.17%	31.71%	8.48%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares MariaDB and Bentley Systems”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
MariaDB	$54.56 million	0.69	-$51.86 million	($0.59)	-0.93
Bentley Systems	$1.29 billion	10.72	$326.71 million	$1.07	44.63

Bentley Systems has higher revenue and earnings than MariaDB. MariaDB is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bentley Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Bentley Systems beats MariaDB on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About MariaDB

MariaDB plc operates as a cloud database company in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers database solutions, including MariaDB Enterprise Server, a premium version of community server; MariaDB Xpand, a distributed structured query language (SQL) database for transactional workloads; MariaDB ColumnStore for data warehousing; MariaDB MaxScale for availability and load balancing; and MariaDB SkySQL, a database-as-a-service for its products on public clouds. The company also provides consulting, training, remote database administration, and engineering architecture services. It serves financial services, government, technology, retail, telecommunications, and transportation industries. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, provides infrastructure engineering software solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. The company offers open modeling engineering applications, such as MicroStation, OpenBridge, OpenBuildings, OpenCities, OpenComms, OpenFlows, OpenPlant, OpenRail, OpenRoads, OpenSite, OpenTower, OpenTunnel, OpenUtilities, and OpenWindowPower; and open simulation engineering applications, including ADINA, AutoPIPE, CUBE, DYNAMEQ, EMME, LEGION, Power Line Systems, RAM, SACS, SPIDA, and STAAD; and geoprofessional applications for modeling and simulation of near and deep subsurface conditions, including AGS, Central, GeoStudio, Imago, Leapfrog, MX Deposit, Oasis montaj, OpenGround, and PLAXIS. It also provides infrastructure cloud applications, such as ProjectWise, SYNCHRO, and AssetWise, as well as iTwin platform that enables users to create and curate cloud native 4D/5D digital representations of physical infrastructure assets consisting of iTwin Capture, iTwin Experience, and iTwin IoT platforms. The company serves civil, structural, geotechnical, subsurface, process engineers, architects, geospatial professionals, city and regional planners, contractors, fabricators, and operations and maintenance engineers. Bentley Systems, Incorporated was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania.