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$2.11 -0.09 (-4.09%)
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CMTL vs. KVHI, AWRE, CSCO, QCOM, PANW, MSI, FFIV, CIEN, JNPR, and SATS

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

Comtech Telecommunications vs.

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

KVH Industries has a net margin of -15.99% compared to Comtech Telecommunications' net margin of -48.97%. KVH Industries' return on equity of -3.96% beat Comtech Telecommunications' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
KVH Industries-15.99% -3.96% -3.38%
Comtech Telecommunications -48.97%-8.76%-3.01%

Comtech Telecommunications has a consensus price target of $6.38, suggesting a potential upside of 202.13%. Given Comtech Telecommunications' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Comtech Telecommunications is more favorable than KVH Industries.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
KVH Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Comtech Telecommunications
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

In the previous week, KVH Industries had 4 more articles in the media than Comtech Telecommunications. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for KVH Industries and 0 mentions for Comtech Telecommunications. Comtech Telecommunications' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat KVH Industries' score of -0.05 indicating that Comtech Telecommunications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
KVH Industries Neutral
Comtech Telecommunications Neutral

KVH Industries has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comtech Telecommunications has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.

73.7% of KVH Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.7% of KVH Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Comtech Telecommunications shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Comtech Telecommunications received 19 more outperform votes than KVH Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.50% of users gave KVH Industries an outperform vote while only 57.00% of users gave Comtech Telecommunications an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
KVH IndustriesOutperform Votes
258
64.50%
Underperform Votes
142
35.50%
Comtech TelecommunicationsOutperform Votes
277
57.00%
Underperform Votes
209
43.00%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
KVH Industries$132.38M0.87-$15.42M-$0.97-6.02
Comtech Telecommunications$540.40M0.11-$99.99M-$9.88-0.21

Summary

KVH Industries and Comtech Telecommunications tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CMTL vs. The Competition

MetricComtech TelecommunicationsRadio & t.v. communications equipment IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$61.55M$11.13B$26.21B$8.98B
Dividend YieldN/A1.49%2.75%3.85%
P/E Ratio-0.2111.7246.3418.82
Price / Sales0.114.632,530.5180.73
Price / Cash0.8312.4335.5737.47
Price / Book0.207.626.864.64
Net Income-$99.99M$358.06M$731.18M$245.69M
7 Day Performance-9.44%-6.90%-2.01%-2.63%
1 Month Performance-13.52%-5.13%0.09%-2.37%
1 Year Performance-70.49%43.23%20.24%13.65%

Comtech Telecommunications Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CMTL
Comtech Telecommunications
3.5615 of 5 stars
$2.11
-4.1%
$6.38
+202.1%
-70.5%$61.55M$540.40M-0.211,676
KVHI
KVH Industries
1.9967 of 5 stars
$6.06
+1.0%
N/A+15.9%$119.99M$132.38M-6.25650News Coverage
AWRE
Aware
1.7129 of 5 stars
$1.61
-3.2%
N/A-13.8%$34.08M$18.24M-4.4780News Coverage
Gap Down
CSCO
Cisco Systems
4.6786 of 5 stars
$64.87
+1.6%
$66.53
+2.6%
+32.0%$258.36B$53.80B27.8490,400Analyst Upgrade
Insider Trade
Buyback Announcement
Positive News
QCOM
QUALCOMM
4.9427 of 5 stars
$172.23
+0.0%
$205.32
+19.2%
+8.8%$190.49B$38.96B18.4049,000Analyst Upgrade
Insider Trade
Positive News
PANW
Palo Alto Networks
4.4121 of 5 stars
$200.03
-0.9%
$202.40
+1.2%
+45.8%$131.26B$8.03B52.0915,289Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
MSI
Motorola Solutions
4.831 of 5 stars
$437.35
-6.2%
$505.88
+15.7%
+29.7%$73.09B$9.98B47.9021,000Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
High Trading Volume
FFIV
F5
3.9901 of 5 stars
$310.18
-0.1%
$295.00
-4.9%
+63.2%$17.99B$2.82B30.836,557Positive News
CIEN
Ciena
4.3671 of 5 stars
$89.45
+0.7%
$78.77
-11.9%
+54.5%$12.71B$4.01B156.938,657
JNPR
Juniper Networks
4.5026 of 5 stars
$36.55
+0.6%
$39.80
+8.9%
-2.7%$12.10B$5.07B42.503,374Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
SATS
EchoStar
0.7147 of 5 stars
$29.26
+1.0%
$23.75
-18.8%
+118.9%$7.95B$17.02B-3.1915,300News Coverage

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