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Aware (AWRE) Competitors

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$1.66 +0.03 (+1.84%)
As of 01/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

AWRE vs. KVHI, CMTL, CSCO, QCOM, PANW, MSI, FFIV, JNPR, CIEN, and SATS

Should you be buying Aware stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aware include KVH Industries (KVHI), Comtech Telecommunications (CMTL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Motorola Solutions (MSI), F5 (FFIV), Juniper Networks (JNPR), Ciena (CIEN), and EchoStar (SATS). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment" industry.

Aware vs.

Aware (NASDAQ:AWRE) and KVH Industries (NASDAQ:KVHI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends and valuation.

Aware has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KVH Industries has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Aware has higher earnings, but lower revenue than KVH Industries. KVH Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aware, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Aware$18.24M1.93-$7.31M-$0.36-4.61
KVH Industries$132.38M0.89-$15.42M-$0.97-6.11

KVH Industries has a net margin of -15.99% compared to Aware's net margin of -44.06%. KVH Industries' return on equity of -3.96% beat Aware's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Aware-44.06% -14.46% -10.72%
KVH Industries -15.99%-3.96%-3.38%

24.4% of Aware shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of KVH Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 28.0% of Aware shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.7% of KVH Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

KVH Industries received 129 more outperform votes than Aware when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.62% of users gave Aware an outperform vote while only 64.50% of users gave KVH Industries an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AwareOutperform Votes
129
68.62%
Underperform Votes
59
31.38%
KVH IndustriesOutperform Votes
258
64.50%
Underperform Votes
142
35.50%

In the previous week, Aware had 5 more articles in the media than KVH Industries. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Aware and 2 mentions for KVH Industries. KVH Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Aware's score of 0.02 indicating that KVH Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Aware
0 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
KVH Industries
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Aware and KVH Industries tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AWRE vs. The Competition

MetricAwarePrepackaged software IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$35.19M$25.38B$27.07B$9.14B
Dividend YieldN/A2.09%2.77%4.02%
P/E Ratio-4.6190.76233.7617.09
Price / Sales1.9314.073,871.7777.22
Price / CashN/A82.5534.3436.04
Price / Book1.0212.638.384.79
Net Income-$7.31M$444.67M$669.29M$224.99M
7 Day Performance2.47%3.22%3.15%2.37%
1 Month Performance8.85%9.71%6.36%4.40%
1 Year Performance9.21%29.50%24.26%20.10%

Aware Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AWRE
Aware
0.8859 of 5 stars
$1.66
+1.8%
N/A+9.2%$35.19M$18.24M-4.6180Short Interest ↑
Gap Up
KVHI
KVH Industries
3.3236 of 5 stars
$5.63
-1.9%
N/A+22.3%$111.47M$118.37M-5.80650
CMTL
Comtech Telecommunications
4.3232 of 5 stars
$2.34
-43.3%
$6.38
+172.4%
-60.9%$68.15M$540.40M-0.501,990Short Interest ↓
High Trading Volume
CSCO
Cisco Systems
4.8464 of 5 stars
$58.76
+0.0%
$61.28
+4.3%
+17.5%$234.03B$52.98B25.2290,400Positive News
QCOM
QUALCOMM
4.9972 of 5 stars
$157.13
+0.1%
$207.11
+31.8%
+8.3%$174.57B$38.96B17.4851,000Dividend Announcement
Positive News
Gap Up
PANW
Palo Alto Networks
4.772 of 5 stars
$167.82
-3.2%
$199.29
+18.8%
+4.9%$110.12B$8.29B21.8515,289Gap Up
MSI
Motorola Solutions
4.7845 of 5 stars
$457.10
+0.4%
$504.88
+10.5%
+42.6%$76.39B$10.66B50.0720,000Positive News
FFIV
F5
4.2661 of 5 stars
$255.16
+0.3%
$239.33
-6.2%
+46.6%$14.96B$2.82B26.696,557Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
JNPR
Juniper Networks
3.9287 of 5 stars
$38.47
+0.1%
$39.25
+2.0%
+2.8%$12.74B$5.03B50.6210,900Short Interest ↑
CIEN
Ciena
4.6149 of 5 stars
$82.20
-0.1%
$77.00
-6.3%
+61.8%$11.68B$4.01B87.458,080
SATS
EchoStar
0.7256 of 5 stars
$23.03
-0.3%
$23.75
+3.1%
+75.6%$6.26B$16.02B-2.512,300

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This page (NASDAQ:AWRE) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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