DZSI vs. FKWL, AKTS, SONM, CLRO, MINM, NSYS, PODC, AWRE, QMCO, and TACT
Should you be buying DZS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DZS include Franklin Wireless (FKWL), Akoustis Technologies (AKTS), Sonim Technologies (SONM), ClearOne (CLRO), Minim (MINM), Nortech Systems (NSYS), PodcastOne (PODC), Aware (AWRE), Quantum (QMCO), and TransAct Technologies (TACT). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Franklin Wireless (NASDAQ:FKWL) and DZS (NASDAQ:DZSI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
18.5% of Franklin Wireless shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.8% of DZS shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.6% of Franklin Wireless shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of DZS shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Franklin Wireless has higher earnings, but lower revenue than DZS. Franklin Wireless is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DZS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DZS has a consensus price target of $6.67, suggesting a potential upside of 324.63%. Given Franklin Wireless' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe DZS is more favorable than Franklin Wireless.
DZS received 211 more outperform votes than Franklin Wireless when rated by MarketBeat users.
DZS has a net margin of 0.00% compared to DZS's net margin of -5.03%. Franklin Wireless' return on equity of 0.00% beat DZS's return on equity.
Franklin Wireless has a beta of 0.09, indicating that its share price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DZS has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DZS had 1 more articles in the media than Franklin Wireless. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for DZS and 1 mentions for Franklin Wireless. DZS's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Franklin Wireless' score of 0.82 indicating that Franklin Wireless is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
DZS beats Franklin Wireless on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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