BLNK vs. WBX, AUDC, GILT, INOD, MTLS, SPOK, AIP, TGAN, PCYG, and BLZE
Should you be buying Blink Charging stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blink Charging include Wallbox (WBX), AudioCodes (AUDC), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT), Innodata (INOD), Materialise (MTLS), Spok (SPOK), Arteris (AIP), Transphorm (TGAN), Park City Group (PCYG), and Backblaze (BLZE). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Wallbox (NYSE:WBX) and Blink Charging (NASDAQ:BLNK) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
36.9% of Wallbox shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.6% of Blink Charging shares are held by institutional investors. 33.3% of Wallbox shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.7% of Blink Charging shares are held by company 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.
Wallbox has a beta of 2.17, indicating that its stock price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blink Charging has a beta of 2.82, indicating that its stock price is 182% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Blink Charging had 10 more articles in the media than Wallbox. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Blink Charging and 2 mentions for Wallbox. Blink Charging's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Wallbox's score of 0.40 indicating that Wallbox is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wallbox currently has a consensus target price of $3.45, suggesting a potential upside of 131.54%. Blink Charging has a consensus target price of $7.86, suggesting a potential upside of 138.82%. Given Wallbox's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Blink Charging is more favorable than Wallbox.
Wallbox has higher revenue and earnings than Blink Charging.
Wallbox has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Wallbox's net margin of -122.09%. Blink Charging's return on equity of 0.00% beat Wallbox's return on equity.
Blink Charging received 127 more outperform votes than Wallbox when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.16% of users gave Blink Charging an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Wallbox an outperform vote.
Summary
Blink Charging beats Wallbox on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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