KSCP vs. INSG, SNT, UTSI, ALPP, VISL, AMPG, MTEK, COMS, IRDM, and LITE
Should you be buying Knightscope stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Knightscope include Inseego (INSG), Senstar Technologies (SNT), UTStarcom (UTSI), Alpine 4 (ALPP), Vislink Technologies (VISL), AmpliTech Group (AMPG), Maris-Tech (MTEK), COMSovereign (COMS), Iridium Communications (IRDM), and Lumentum (LITE). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Knightscope (NASDAQ:KSCP) and Inseego (NASDAQ:INSG) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Knightscope has a beta of 2.04, suggesting that its stock price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inseego has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Knightscope has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Inseego. Inseego is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Knightscope, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
14.6% of Knightscope shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.2% of Inseego shares are held by institutional investors. 15.4% of Knightscope shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Inseego shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Inseego has a net margin of -23.98% compared to Knightscope's net margin of -224.34%.
Knightscope presently has a consensus target price of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1,303.02%. Inseego has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.87%. Given Knightscope's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Knightscope is more favorable than Inseego.
In the previous week, Inseego had 2 more articles in the media than Knightscope. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Inseego and 1 mentions for Knightscope. Knightscope's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Inseego's score of 1.16 indicating that Knightscope is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Inseego received 335 more outperform votes than Knightscope when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Knightscope an outperform vote while only 61.83% of users gave Inseego an outperform vote.
Summary
Knightscope beats Inseego on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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