OOMA vs. TCX, TRVG, INOD, QBTS, LTRPA, BCOV, EGHT, PCYG, PHUN, and SOHU
Should you be buying Ooma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ooma include Tucows (TCX), trivago (TRVG), Innodata (INOD), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), Liberty TripAdvisor (LTRPA), Brightcove (BCOV), 8X8 (EGHT), Park City Group (PCYG), Phunware (PHUN), and Sohu.com (SOHU). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Ooma (NYSE:OOMA) and Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Ooma currently has a consensus target price of $14.67, indicating a potential upside of 95.04%. Given Ooma's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ooma is more favorable than Tucows.
Ooma has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tucows has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ooma has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tucows. Ooma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tucows, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ooma received 156 more outperform votes than Tucows when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.53% of users gave Ooma an outperform vote while only 59.00% of users gave Tucows an outperform vote.
Ooma has a net margin of -0.35% compared to Tucows' net margin of -29.91%. Ooma's return on equity of 0.35% beat Tucows' return on equity.
80.4% of Ooma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Tucows shares are held by institutional investors. 9.8% of Ooma shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of Tucows shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Tucows had 3 more articles in the media than Ooma. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Tucows and 4 mentions for Ooma. Ooma's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Tucows' score of 0.09 indicating that Ooma is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ooma beats Tucows on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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