VUZI vs. KVHI, CMBM, ONDS, SATL, AIRG, CMTL, CRNT, COMM, GILT, and INVE Should you be buying Vuzix stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vuzix include KVH Industries (KVHI), Cambium Networks (CMBM), Ondas (ONDS), Satellogic (SATL), Airgain (AIRG), Comtech Telecommunications (CMTL), Ceragon Networks (CRNT), CommScope (COMM), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT), and Identiv (INVE). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Vuzix (NASDAQ:VUZI ) and KVH Industries (NASDAQ:KVHI ) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
35.9% of Vuzix shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of KVH Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of Vuzix shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of KVH Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vuzix presently has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 111.27%. KVH Industries has a consensus target price of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 37.25%. Given Vuzix's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Vuzix is more favorable than KVH Industries.
Vuzix received 95 more outperform votes than KVH Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.81% of users gave Vuzix an outperform vote while only 64.50% of users gave KVH Industries an outperform vote.
Vuzix has a beta of 1.86, suggesting that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KVH Industries has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
KVH Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Vuzix. KVH Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vuzix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Vuzix had 3 more articles in the media than KVH Industries. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Vuzix and 1 mentions for KVH Industries. KVH Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Vuzix's score of 0.29 indicating that KVH Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KVH Industries has a net margin of -14.54% compared to Vuzix's net margin of -502.48%. KVH Industries' return on equity of -0.98% beat Vuzix's return on equity.
Summary Vuzix beats KVH Industries on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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