IMMR vs. RDCM, ALOT, INVE, KTCC, TACT, EVLV, MITK, SSYS, CRNT, and NAAS
Should you be buying Immersion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Immersion include RADCOM (RDCM), AstroNova (ALOT), Identiv (INVE), Key Tronic (KTCC), TransAct Technologies (TACT), Evolv Technologies (EVLV), Mitek Systems (MITK), Stratasys (SSYS), Ceragon Networks (CRNT), and NaaS Technology (NAAS).
Immersion (NASDAQ:IMMR) and RADCOM (NASDAQ:RDCM) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.
60.6% of Immersion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.3% of RADCOM shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Immersion shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 69.0% of RADCOM shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Immersion presently has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 30.95%. RADCOM has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 48.94%. Given RADCOM's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe RADCOM is more favorable than Immersion.
Immersion has a net margin of 62.74% compared to RADCOM's net margin of 7.20%. Immersion's return on equity of 24.50% beat RADCOM's return on equity.
Immersion has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RADCOM has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Immersion received 93 more outperform votes than RADCOM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.67% of users gave Immersion an outperform vote while only 69.13% of users gave RADCOM an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Immersion had 1 more articles in the media than RADCOM. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Immersion and 10 mentions for RADCOM. Immersion's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat RADCOM's score of 0.48 indicating that Immersion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Immersion has higher earnings, but lower revenue than RADCOM. Immersion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RADCOM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Immersion beats RADCOM on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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