ITI vs. PWFL, HEAR, REKR, INSG, SNT, KSCP, UTSI, ALPP, VISL, and AMPG
Should you be buying Iteris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Iteris include PowerFleet (PWFL), Turtle Beach (HEAR), Rekor Systems (REKR), Inseego (INSG), Senstar Technologies (SNT), Knightscope (KSCP), UTStarcom (UTSI), Alpine 4 (ALPP), Vislink Technologies (VISL), and AmpliTech Group (AMPG). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Iteris (NASDAQ:ITI) and PowerFleet (NASDAQ:PWFL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Iteris presently has a consensus target price of $9.75, suggesting a potential upside of 121.59%. PowerFleet has a consensus target price of $8.43, suggesting a potential upside of 83.63%. Given Iteris' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Iteris is more favorable than PowerFleet.
PowerFleet has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Iteris. PowerFleet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iteris, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Iteris received 229 more outperform votes than PowerFleet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.94% of users gave Iteris an outperform vote while only 40.52% of users gave PowerFleet an outperform vote.
Iteris has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PowerFleet has a beta of 1.75, meaning that its share price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.
51.2% of Iteris shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.4% of PowerFleet shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of Iteris shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of PowerFleet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Iteris had 3 more articles in the media than PowerFleet. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Iteris and 0 mentions for PowerFleet. Iteris' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat PowerFleet's score of 0.00 indicating that Iteris is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Iteris has a net margin of 1.45% compared to PowerFleet's net margin of -3.86%. Iteris' return on equity of 3.76% beat PowerFleet's return on equity.
Summary
Iteris beats PowerFleet on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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