TLS vs. ASUR, UIS, PLMI, CSPI, OSPN, RBBN, MDRX, SLP, MG, and TRUE
Should you be buying Telos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Telos include Asure Software (ASUR), Unisys (UIS), Plum Acquisition Corp. I (PLMI), CSP (CSPI), OneSpan (OSPN), Ribbon Communications (RBBN), Veradigm (MDRX), Simulations Plus (SLP), Mistras Group (MG), and TrueCar (TRUE).
Asure Software (NASDAQ:ASUR) and Telos (NASDAQ:TLS) 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, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Asure Software presently has a consensus price target of $13.40, suggesting a potential upside of 80.84%. Telos has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 57.73%. Given Telos' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Asure Software is more favorable than Telos.
Asure Software has a net margin of -8.38% compared to Asure Software's net margin of -22.22%. Telos' return on equity of 3.86% beat Asure Software's return on equity.
In the previous week, Telos had 13 more articles in the media than Asure Software. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Telos and 7 mentions for Asure Software. Telos' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Asure Software's score of 0.12 indicating that Asure Software is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Asure Software has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Telos. Asure Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
71.6% of Asure Software shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.1% of Telos shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of Asure Software shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.4% of Telos 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.
Asure Software received 298 more outperform votes than Telos when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.84% of users gave Asure Software an outperform vote while only 64.94% of users gave Telos an outperform vote.
Asure Software has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telos has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Asure Software beats Telos on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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