HLIT vs. SWIR, BCOV, CMTL, SATS, IDCC, CALX, VSAT, EXTR, INFN, and DGII
Should you be buying Harmonic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harmonic include Sierra Wireless (SWIR), Brightcove (BCOV), Comtech Telecommunications (CMTL), EchoStar (SATS), InterDigital (IDCC), Calix (CALX), Viasat (VSAT), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Infinera (INFN), and Digi International (DGII). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) and Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ:SWIR) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
99.4% of Harmonic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.8% of Sierra Wireless shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Harmonic shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Sierra Wireless shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Harmonic had 5 more articles in the media than Sierra Wireless. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Harmonic and 0 mentions for Sierra Wireless. Harmonic's average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat Sierra Wireless' score of 0.71 indicating that Harmonic is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Harmonic has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sierra Wireless has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Harmonic has higher revenue and earnings than Sierra Wireless. Sierra Wireless is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Harmonic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Harmonic has a net margin of 12.37% compared to Sierra Wireless' net margin of -3.19%. Sierra Wireless' return on equity of 7.64% beat Harmonic's return on equity.
Harmonic presently has a consensus target price of $17.20, suggesting a potential upside of 40.64%. Given Harmonic's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Harmonic is more favorable than Sierra Wireless.
Sierra Wireless received 88 more outperform votes than Harmonic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Harmonic an outperform vote while only 50.88% of users gave Sierra Wireless an outperform vote.
Summary
Harmonic beats Sierra Wireless on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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