diff --git a/src/main/scopes/npm/find-installers-from-tree.ts b/src/main/scopes/npm/find-installers-from-tree.ts
index 9e16f08b..b52c9d3e 100644
--- a/src/main/scopes/npm/find-installers-from-tree.ts
+++ b/src/main/scopes/npm/find-installers-from-tree.ts
@@ -52,15 +52,16 @@ export function findInstallersFromTree(
     packageName,
     packageVersion
   ])
+  let results: InstallingPackage[] = []
+
   // Matches come back as something like: [..., parentPkgName, dependencies, instrumentedPackage]
   const matches = findNestedDeps(dependencyTree, packageName, packageVersion)
-  let result: InstallingPackage[] = []
 
   if (matches.length >= 1) {
     // We want to ignore last 2 pieces to get the parent's info, not the child's
-    result = matches.map((match) => getPackageSubTree(dependencyTree, match.slice(0, -2)))
+    results = matches.map((match) => getPackageSubTree(dependencyTree, match.slice(0, -2)))
   }
 
-  logger.traceExit('find-installers-from-tree', 'findInstallersFromTree', result)
-  return result
+  logger.traceExit('find-installers-from-tree', 'findInstallersFromTree', results)
+  return results
 }
diff --git a/src/main/scopes/npm/metrics/dependency-metric.ts b/src/main/scopes/npm/metrics/dependency-metric.ts
index a209bc61..db4e1108 100644
--- a/src/main/scopes/npm/metrics/dependency-metric.ts
+++ b/src/main/scopes/npm/metrics/dependency-metric.ts
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ export class DependencyMetric extends ScopeMetric {
         'version.major': major.toString(),
         'version.minor': minor.toString(),
         'version.patch': patch.toString(),
-        'version.preRelease': preRelease.join('.'),
+        'version.preRelease': preRelease?.join('.'),
         'installer.raw': this.data.installerName,
         'installer.owner': installerOwner,
         'installer.name': installerName,
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ export class DependencyMetric extends ScopeMetric {
         'installer.version.major': installerMajor.toString(),
         'installer.version.minor': installerMinor.toString(),
         'installer.version.patch': installerPatch.toString(),
-        'installer.version.preRelease': installerPreRelease.join('.')
+        'installer.version.preRelease': installerPreRelease?.join('.')
       },
       {
         hash: [
@@ -109,12 +109,12 @@ export class DependencyMetric extends ScopeMetric {
     const { major, minor, patch, prerelease } = new SemVer(rawPackageVersion)
 
     return {
-      owner,
-      name,
+      owner: owner === '' ? undefined : owner,
+      name: name === '' ? undefined : name,
       major,
       minor,
       patch,
-      preRelease: prerelease
+      preRelease: prerelease.length === 0 ? undefined : prerelease
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/scopes/npm/__snapshots__/npm-scope.e2e.test.ts.snap b/src/test/scopes/npm/__snapshots__/npm-scope.e2e.test.ts.snap
index 542ba5ba..a7d37aa2 100644
--- a/src/test/scopes/npm/__snapshots__/npm-scope.e2e.test.ts.snap
+++ b/src/test/scopes/npm/__snapshots__/npm-scope.e2e.test.ts.snap
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ exports[`class: NpmScope > run > correctly captures dependency data 1`] = `
                   "installer.version.major": "1",
                   "installer.version.minor": "0",
                   "installer.version.patch": "0",
-                  "installer.version.preRelease": "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855",
+                  "installer.version.preRelease": undefined,
                   "installer.version.raw": "92521fc3cbd964bdc9f584a991b89fddaa5754ed1cc96d6d42445338669c1305",
                   "name": "2c26b46b68ffc68ff99b453c1d30413413422d706483bfa0f98a5e886266e7ae",
                   "owner": undefined,
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ exports[`class: NpmScope > run > correctly captures dependency data 1`] = `
                   "version.major": "1",
                   "version.minor": "0",
                   "version.patch": "0",
-                  "version.preRelease": "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855",
+                  "version.preRelease": undefined,
                   "version.raw": "92521fc3cbd964bdc9f584a991b89fddaa5754ed1cc96d6d42445338669c1305",
                 },
                 "endTime": [
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ exports[`class: NpmScope > run > correctly captures dependency data 1`] = `
                   "installer.version.major": "1",
                   "installer.version.minor": "0",
                   "installer.version.patch": "0",
-                  "installer.version.preRelease": "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855",
+                  "installer.version.preRelease": undefined,
                   "installer.version.raw": "92521fc3cbd964bdc9f584a991b89fddaa5754ed1cc96d6d42445338669c1305",
                   "name": "ec46e364d52dab2e207d33617267a84df5838926793c1b0a2974899fe28229f1",
                   "owner": undefined,
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ exports[`class: NpmScope > run > correctly captures dependency data 1`] = `
                   "version.major": "0",
                   "version.minor": "1",
                   "version.patch": "0",
-                  "version.preRelease": "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855",
+                  "version.preRelease": undefined,
                   "version.raw": "6ad9613a455798d6d92e5f5f390ab4baa70596bc869ed6b17f5cdd2b28635f06",
                 },
                 "endTime": [
diff --git a/src/test/scopes/npm/metrics/dependency-metric.test.ts b/src/test/scopes/npm/metrics/dependency-metric.test.ts
index 4ef32d21..ba79d06a 100644
--- a/src/test/scopes/npm/metrics/dependency-metric.test.ts
+++ b/src/test/scopes/npm/metrics/dependency-metric.test.ts
@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ describe('dependencyMetric', () => {
           'version.major': '0',
           'version.minor': '0',
           'version.patch': '1',
-          'version.preRelease': '',
+          'version.preRelease': undefined,
           'installer.name': 'test-1-installer',
           'installer.owner': undefined,
           'installer.raw': 'test-1-installer',
           'installer.version.major': '1',
           'installer.version.minor': '0',
           'installer.version.patch': '0',
-          'installer.version.preRelease': '',
+          'installer.version.preRelease': undefined,
           'installer.version.raw': '1.0.0'
         },
         {
@@ -135,13 +135,13 @@ describe('dependencyMetric', () => {
           'installer.version.major': '1',
           'installer.version.minor': '0',
           'installer.version.patch': '0',
-          'installer.version.preRelease': '',
+          'installer.version.preRelease': undefined,
           'installer.version.raw': '1.0.0+9999',
           'version.raw': '0.0.1+12345',
           'version.major': '0',
           'version.minor': '0',
           'version.patch': '1',
-          'version.preRelease': ''
+          'version.preRelease': undefined
         },
         {
           hash: [
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ describe('dependencyMetric', () => {
           'installer.version.major': '1',
           'installer.version.minor': '0',
           'installer.version.patch': '0',
-          'installer.version.preRelease': '',
+          'installer.version.preRelease': undefined,
           'installer.version.raw': '1.0.0',
           'version.raw': '0.0.1-rc.0+12345',
           'version.major': '0',