IBEX vs. OOMA, GSMG, VERI, SSNT, SJ, PGRU, TIXT, YEXT, GB, and API
Should you be buying IBEX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IBEX include Ooma (OOMA), Glory Star New Media Group (GSMG), Veritone (VERI), SilverSun Technologies (SSNT), Scienjoy (SJ), PropertyGuru Group (PGRU), TELUS International (Cda) (TIXT), Yext (YEXT), Global Blue Group (GB), and Agora (API).
Ooma (NYSE:OOMA) and IBEX (NASDAQ:IBEX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and profitability.
IBEX has higher revenue and earnings than Ooma. Ooma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IBEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.4% of Ooma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.2% of IBEX shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.8% of Ooma shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.8% of IBEX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
IBEX has a net margin of 5.57% compared to IBEX's net margin of -0.35%. Ooma's return on equity of 20.23% beat IBEX's return on equity.
Ooma received 325 more outperform votes than IBEX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.53% of users gave Ooma an outperform vote while only 41.33% of users gave IBEX an outperform vote.
In the previous week, IBEX had 3 more articles in the media than Ooma. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for IBEX and 3 mentions for Ooma. IBEX's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Ooma's score of 0.24 indicating that Ooma is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ooma currently has a consensus target price of $14.67, suggesting a potential upside of 95.56%. IBEX has a consensus target price of $19.20, suggesting a potential upside of 24.03%. Given IBEX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ooma is more favorable than IBEX.
Ooma has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IBEX has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
IBEX beats Ooma on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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