WATT vs. DGLY, MWG, AWX, ADN, HIHO, HUBC, ARTW, MOB, CLWT, and SQFT
Should you be buying Energous stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Energous include Digital Ally (DGLY), Multi Ways (MWG), Avalon (AWX), Advent Technologies (ADN), Highway (HIHO), HUB Cyber Security (HUBC), Art's-Way Manufacturing (ARTW), Mobilicom (MOB), Euro Tech (CLWT), and Presidio Property Trust (SQFT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Energous (NASDAQ:WATT) and Digital Ally (NASDAQ:DGLY) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Energous has a beta of 2.64, indicating that its share price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Digital Ally has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Digital Ally has a net margin of -90.01% compared to Energous' net margin of -4,077.47%. Digital Ally's return on equity of -123.47% beat Energous' return on equity.
In the previous week, Digital Ally had 1 more articles in the media than Energous. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Digital Ally and 1 mentions for Energous. Digital Ally's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Energous' score of 0.34 indicating that Digital Ally is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Energous received 117 more outperform votes than Digital Ally when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.20% of users gave Energous an outperform vote while only 57.05% of users gave Digital Ally an outperform vote.
Energous has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Digital Ally. Energous is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Digital Ally, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Energous currently has a consensus target price of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 38.89%. Given Energous' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Energous is more favorable than Digital Ally.
4.3% of Energous shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.2% of Digital Ally shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Energous shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of Digital Ally shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Energous and Digital Ally tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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