HLIT vs. AVNW, VSAT, PL, MGNI, ARLO, ENFN, BASE, DBD, GENI, and TBLA
Should you be buying Harmonic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harmonic include Aviat Networks (AVNW), Viasat (VSAT), Planet Labs PBC (PL), Magnite (MGNI), Arlo Technologies (ARLO), Enfusion (ENFN), Couchbase (BASE), Diebold Nixdorf (DBD), Genius Sports (GENI), and Taboola.com (TBLA). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Aviat Networks (NASDAQ:AVNW) and Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) are both small-cap 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, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
In the previous week, Harmonic had 19 more articles in the media than Aviat Networks. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Harmonic and 12 mentions for Aviat Networks. Aviat Networks' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Harmonic's score of 0.07 indicating that Harmonic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aviat Networks presently has a consensus target price of $53.75, indicating a potential upside of 89.29%. Harmonic has a consensus target price of $17.20, indicating a potential upside of 54.95%. Given Harmonic's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Aviat Networks is more favorable than Harmonic.
Aviat Networks has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harmonic has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
78.6% of Aviat Networks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of Harmonic shares are held by institutional investors. 5.7% of Aviat Networks shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Harmonic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Harmonic received 96 more outperform votes than Aviat Networks when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.03% of users gave Aviat Networks an outperform vote while only 59.93% of users gave Harmonic an outperform vote.
Harmonic has higher revenue and earnings than Aviat Networks. Harmonic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aviat Networks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Harmonic has a net margin of 12.37% compared to Harmonic's net margin of 3.54%. Harmonic's return on equity of 14.93% beat Aviat Networks' return on equity.
Summary
Harmonic beats Aviat Networks on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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