Head to Head Review: Tintri (TNTR) and Western Digital Corporation (WDC)

Tintri (NASDAQ: TNTR) and Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

36.9% of Tintri shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Western Digital Corporation shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Western Digital Corporation shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Tintri and Western Digital Corporation, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tintri	0	2	5	0	2.71
Western Digital Corporation	0	5	28	1	2.88

Tintri presently has a consensus price target of $10.58, indicating a potential upside of 83.42%. Western Digital Corporation has a consensus price target of $105.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.90%. Given Tintri’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Tintri is more favorable than Western Digital Corporation.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Tintri and Western Digital Corporation’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	EBITDA	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tintri	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Western Digital Corporation	$19.09 billion	1.38	$4.40 billion	$1.28	70.51

Western Digital Corporation has higher revenue and earnings than Tintri.

Profitability

This table compares Tintri and Western Digital Corporation’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tintri	N/A	N/A	N/A
Western Digital Corporation	2.08%	21.23%	7.96%

Dividends

Western Digital Corporation pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Tintri does not pay a dividend. Western Digital Corporation pays out 156.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Summary

Western Digital Corporation beats Tintri on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

Tintri Company Profile

Tintri, Inc. is a United States-based company. The Company is engaged in the business of storage management solutions. The Company offers a range of products, including Tintri all-flash array, Tintri hybrid-flash array, Tintri Global Center (TGC), Tintri Analytics, Tintri Storage Software. The Company’s solutions include cloud, desktops, database system and servers, Data protection and disaster recovery and DevOps. Tintri all-flash array offers a set of rest application programming interface (API), as well as a PowerShell Toolkit and Python software development kit (SDK). The Tintri hybrid-flash array enables user top dive into individual VMs. Tintri Global Center (TGC) helps in storage management. It operates a one-person storage management center. Users can manage up to 32 VMstores as one with visibility into all individual VMs. Tintri Analytics helps to make better decisions with cloud-based predictive analytics.

Western Digital Corporation Company Profile

Western Digital Corporation (Western Digital) is a developer, manufacturer and provider of data storage devices and solutions that address the needs of the information technology (IT) industry and the infrastructure that enables the proliferation of data in virtually every industry. The Company’s portfolio of offerings addresses three categories: Datacenter Devices and Solutions (capacity and performance enterprise hard disk drives (HDDs), enterprise solid state drives (SSDs), datacenter software and system solutions); Client Devices (mobile, desktop, gaming and digital video hard drives, client SSDs, embedded products and wafers), and Client Solutions (removable products, hard drive content solutions and flash content solutions). The Company develops and manufactures a portion of the recording heads and magnetic media used in its hard drive products.