SATS vs. UI, VSAT, CALX, CCOI, GSAT, HLIT, GOGO, WK, AVT, and PI
Should you be buying EchoStar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EchoStar include Ubiquiti (UI), Viasat (VSAT), Calix (CALX), Cogent Communications (CCOI), Globalstar (GSAT), Harmonic (HLIT), Gogo (GOGO), Workiva (WK), Avnet (AVT), and Impinj (PI). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
EchoStar (NASDAQ:SATS) and Ubiquiti (NYSE:UI) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
EchoStar has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ubiquiti has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ubiquiti has a net margin of 19.83% compared to EchoStar's net margin of -36.33%. EchoStar's return on equity of 5.24% beat Ubiquiti's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ubiquiti had 5 more articles in the media than EchoStar. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Ubiquiti and 2 mentions for EchoStar. Ubiquiti's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat EchoStar's score of 0.00 indicating that Ubiquiti is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
33.6% of EchoStar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.0% of Ubiquiti shares are owned by institutional investors. 55.9% of EchoStar shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 93.1% of Ubiquiti shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ubiquiti has lower revenue, but higher earnings than EchoStar. EchoStar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ubiquiti, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EchoStar presently has a consensus target price of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 31.88%. Ubiquiti has a consensus target price of $126.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.76%. Given EchoStar's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe EchoStar is more favorable than Ubiquiti.
EchoStar received 318 more outperform votes than Ubiquiti when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.85% of users gave EchoStar an outperform vote while only 41.11% of users gave Ubiquiti an outperform vote.
Summary
Ubiquiti beats EchoStar on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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