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PFPT vs TWTR

Side-by-side comparison of Proofpoint, Inc. (PFPT) and Twitter Inc. (TWTR): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both PFPT and TWTR operate in EDP Services (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • TWTR is the larger of the two at $28.20B, about 2.8x PFPT ($10.16B).
  • TWTR has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 1 for PFPT).
MetricPFPTTWTR
Company
Proofpoint, Inc.
Twitter Inc.
Price
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-
Market cap
$10.16B
$28.20B
1M return
-
-
1Y return
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Industry
EDP Services
EDP Services
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
2012
2013
News (4w)
0
0
Recent ratings
1
25
PFPT

Proofpoint, Inc.

Proofpoint, Inc. operates as a security-as-a-service provider that enables large and mid-sized organizations to defend, protect, archive, and govern their sensitive data worldwide. It offers protection against advanced and targeted threats, including malicious attachments, polymorphic threats, zero-day exploits, user-transparent drive-by downloads, malicious web links, hybrid threats, malware free attacks, and other penetration tactics. The company also provides integrated email security, cloud security, threat protection products, information protection and archiving, and digital risk protection product services. In addition, it offers solutions that enable secure business-to-business and business-to-consumer communications; email encryption services that encrypt sensitive emails and deliver them to PC or mobile device; file-transfer solutions for end-users to share various forms of documents and other content; security optimized cloud architecture solutions; and security-as-a-service platform consisting of solutions, platform technologies, and infrastructures. The company serves governments, education, financial services, and healthcare sectors; small and medium businesses; and mobile operators and Internet service providers. Proofpoint, Inc. was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

TWTR

Twitter Inc.

Twitter, Inc. operates as a platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time United States, Japan, and internationally. The company offers Twitter, a platform that allows users to consume, create, distribute, and discover content. It also provides promoted products and services, such as promoted tweets, promoted accounts, and promoted trends, which enable its advertisers to promote their brands, products, and services. In addition, the company offers MoPub, a mobile-focused advertising exchange that combines ad serving, ad network mediation, and a real-time bidding exchange into one monetization platform; Twitter Audience platform, an advertising offering that enables advertisers to extend advertising campaigns; Developer and Enterprise solutions, a software-as-a-service platform that enables developers to build products on Twitter; and paid enterprise access for its public data streams. Twitter, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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