VUZI vs. KVHI, AIRG, CMTL, ONDS, CMBM, SATL, COMM, CRNT, GILT, and FLUX
Should you be buying Vuzix stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vuzix include KVH Industries (KVHI), Airgain (AIRG), Comtech Telecommunications (CMTL), Ondas (ONDS), Cambium Networks (CMBM), Satellogic (SATL), CommScope (COMM), Ceragon Networks (CRNT), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT), and Flux Power (FLUX). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
KVH Industries (NASDAQ:KVHI) and Vuzix (NASDAQ:VUZI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
KVH Industries presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 39.72%. Vuzix has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 134.38%. Given KVH Industries' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Vuzix is more favorable than KVH Industries.
KVH Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Vuzix. KVH Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vuzix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vuzix received 95 more outperform votes than KVH Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.81% of users gave Vuzix an outperform vote while only 64.66% of users gave KVH Industries an outperform vote.
In the previous week, KVH Industries had 5 more articles in the media than Vuzix. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for KVH Industries and 7 mentions for Vuzix. Vuzix's average media sentiment score of -0.11 beat KVH Industries' score of -0.32 indicating that KVH Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
73.7% of KVH Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.9% of Vuzix shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of KVH Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Vuzix shares are held 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.
KVH Industries has a net margin of -11.69% compared to KVH Industries' net margin of -413.47%. Vuzix's return on equity of -0.15% beat KVH Industries' return on equity.
KVH Industries has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vuzix has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
KVH Industries beats Vuzix on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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