KVHI vs. CMTL, CMBM, VUZI, SATL, AIRG, ONDS, COMM, CRNT, GILT, and PXLW
Should you be buying KVH Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KVH Industries include Comtech Telecommunications (CMTL), Cambium Networks (CMBM), Vuzix (VUZI), Satellogic (SATL), Airgain (AIRG), Ondas (ONDS), CommScope (COMM), Ceragon Networks (CRNT), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT), and Pixelworks (PXLW). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Comtech Telecommunications (NASDAQ:CMTL) and KVH Industries (NASDAQ:KVHI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Comtech Telecommunications presently has a consensus target price of $12.25, indicating a potential upside of 551.60%. KVH Industries has a consensus target price of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 44.03%. Given KVH Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Comtech Telecommunications is more favorable than KVH Industries.
KVH Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Comtech Telecommunications received 18 more outperform votes than KVH Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.66% of users gave KVH Industries an outperform vote while only 57.38% of users gave Comtech Telecommunications an outperform vote.
Comtech Telecommunications has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KVH Industries has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
73.7% of KVH Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Comtech Telecommunications shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of KVH Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Comtech Telecommunications and Comtech Telecommunications both had 2 articles in the media. Comtech Telecommunications' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat KVH Industries' score of 0.19 indicating that KVH Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news 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.
Summary
KVH Industries beats Comtech Telecommunications on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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