VSAT vs. HLIT, PL, GILT, CMBM, CMTL, S, UI, ROG, SEMR, and PRGS
Should you be buying Viasat stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viasat include Harmonic (HLIT), Planet Labs PBC (PL), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT), Cambium Networks (CMBM), Comtech Telecommunications (CMTL), SentinelOne (S), Ubiquiti (UI), Rogers (ROG), Semrush (SEMR), and Progress Software (PRGS). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) and Viasat (NASDAQ:VSAT) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Harmonic has a net margin of 12.37% compared to Harmonic's net margin of 6.01%. Harmonic's return on equity of 4.52% beat Viasat's return on equity.
Viasat has higher revenue and earnings than Harmonic. Viasat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Harmonic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Harmonic presently has a consensus price target of $17.20, suggesting a potential upside of 47.89%. Viasat has a consensus price target of $38.17, suggesting a potential upside of 100.88%. Given Harmonic's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Viasat is more favorable than Harmonic.
Viasat received 102 more outperform votes than Harmonic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.22% of users gave Viasat an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Harmonic an outperform vote.
99.4% of Harmonic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of Viasat shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Harmonic shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Viasat shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Harmonic had 1 more articles in the media than Viasat. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Harmonic and 6 mentions for Viasat. Viasat's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Harmonic's score of 0.44 indicating that Harmonic is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Harmonic has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viasat has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Viasat beats Harmonic on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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