OOMA vs. TCX, QBTS, TRVG, PCYG, BCOV, INOD, PHUN, EGHT, SOHU, and GRVY
Should you be buying Ooma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ooma include Tucows (TCX), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), trivago (TRVG), Park City Group (PCYG), Brightcove (BCOV), Innodata (INOD), Phunware (PHUN), 8X8 (EGHT), Sohu.com (SOHU), and Gravity (GRVY). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Ooma (NYSE:OOMA) and Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Ooma had 2 more articles in the media than Tucows. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ooma and 1 mentions for Tucows. Tucows' average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Ooma's score of 0.58 indicating that Tucows is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ooma has a net margin of -0.35% compared to Tucows' net margin of -29.91%. Ooma's return on equity of 0.35% beat Tucows' return on equity.
Ooma has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tucows. Ooma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tucows, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ooma presently has a consensus price target of $14.67, indicating a potential upside of 95.56%. Given Ooma's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ooma is more favorable than Tucows.
Ooma received 156 more outperform votes than Tucows when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.53% of users gave Ooma an outperform vote while only 59.00% of users gave Tucows an outperform vote.
80.4% of Ooma shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Tucows shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.8% of Ooma shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of Tucows shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Ooma has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tucows has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ooma beats Tucows on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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