IBEX vs. OOMA, SRT, BLCT, SJ, GB, PGRU, YEXT, TIXT, APLD, and GRVY
Should you be buying IBEX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IBEX include Ooma (OOMA), Startek (SRT), BlueCity (BLCT), Scienjoy (SJ), Global Blue Group (GB), PropertyGuru Group (PGRU), Yext (YEXT), TELUS International (Cda) (TIXT), Applied Digital (APLD), and Gravity (GRVY).
Ooma (NYSE:OOMA) and IBEX (NASDAQ:IBEX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and valuation.
Ooma presently has a consensus price target of $14.67, suggesting a potential upside of 69.75%. IBEX has a consensus price target of $19.20, suggesting a potential upside of 22.68%. Given IBEX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ooma is more favorable than IBEX.
IBEX has higher revenue and earnings than Ooma. Ooma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IBEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IBEX has a net margin of 5.57% compared to IBEX's net margin of -1.09%. Ooma's return on equity of 20.23% beat IBEX's return on equity.
80.4% of Ooma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.2% of IBEX shares are held by institutional investors. 9.8% of Ooma shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.8% of IBEX 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.
In the previous week, Ooma had 5 more articles in the media than IBEX. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Ooma and 12 mentions for IBEX. Ooma's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat IBEX's score of -0.04 indicating that IBEX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ooma received 325 more outperform votes than IBEX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.53% of users gave Ooma an outperform vote while only 41.33% of users gave IBEX an outperform vote.
Ooma has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IBEX has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
IBEX beats Ooma on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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