ROG vs. VSAT, SEMR, PRGS, VECO, GSAT, WB, PLUS, AVDX, CRTO, and OSIS
Should you be buying Rogers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rogers include Viasat (VSAT), Semrush (SEMR), Progress Software (PRGS), Veeco Instruments (VECO), Globalstar (GSAT), Weibo (WB), ePlus (PLUS), AvidXchange (AVDX), Criteo (CRTO), and OSI Systems (OSIS). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Viasat (NASDAQ:VSAT) and Rogers (NYSE:ROG) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment and community ranking.
Viasat currently has a consensus price target of $38.17, indicating a potential upside of 100.88%. Given Rogers' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Viasat is more favorable than Rogers.
Viasat has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rogers has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Viasat has higher revenue and earnings than Rogers. Viasat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rogers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rogers received 27 more outperform votes than Viasat when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.81% of users gave Rogers an outperform vote while only 61.22% of users gave Viasat an outperform vote.
Rogers has a net margin of 7.73% compared to Rogers' net margin of 6.01%. Viasat's return on equity of 5.30% beat Rogers' return on equity.
86.1% of Viasat shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Rogers shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Viasat shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Rogers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Rogers had 27 more articles in the media than Viasat. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Rogers and 6 mentions for Viasat. Rogers' average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Viasat's score of 0.14 indicating that Viasat is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Rogers beats Viasat on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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