CMTL vs. KVHI, AIRG, ONDS, VUZI, CMBM, SATL, COMM, LPTH, GAN, and WIMI
Should you be buying Comtech Telecommunications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Comtech Telecommunications include KVH Industries (KVHI), Airgain (AIRG), Ondas (ONDS), Vuzix (VUZI), Cambium Networks (CMBM), Satellogic (SATL), CommScope (COMM), LightPath Technologies (LPTH), GAN (GAN), and WiMi Hologram Cloud (WIMI). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
KVH Industries (NASDAQ:KVHI) and Comtech Telecommunications (NASDAQ:CMTL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and valuation.
KVH Industries has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comtech Telecommunications has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Comtech Telecommunications had 1 more articles in the media than KVH Industries. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Comtech Telecommunications and 1 mentions for KVH Industries. Comtech Telecommunications' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat KVH Industries' score of -0.14 indicating that KVH Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Comtech Telecommunications has a net margin of -4.02% compared to Comtech Telecommunications' net margin of -11.69%. Comtech Telecommunications' return on equity of -0.15% beat KVH Industries' return on equity.
73.7% of KVH Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of KVH Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Comtech Telecommunications shares are held 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.
KVH Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Comtech Telecommunications. KVH Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Comtech Telecommunications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KVH Industries presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 46.44%. Comtech Telecommunications has a consensus price target of $12.25, indicating a potential upside of 497.56%. Given KVH Industries' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Comtech Telecommunications is more favorable than KVH Industries.
Comtech Telecommunications received 18 more outperform votes than KVH Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.82% of users gave KVH Industries an outperform vote while only 57.38% of users gave Comtech Telecommunications an outperform vote.
Summary
KVH Industries beats Comtech Telecommunications on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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