IDCC vs. FRG, TIVO, ACTG, JYNT, APPS, FFIV, CIEN, SATS, CALX, and VSAT
Should you be buying InterDigital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InterDigital include Franchise Group (FRG), TiVo (TIVO), Acacia Research (ACTG), Joint (JYNT), Digital Turbine (APPS), F5 (FFIV), Ciena (CIEN), EchoStar (SATS), Calix (CALX), and Viasat (VSAT).
Franchise Group (NASDAQ:FRG) and InterDigital (NASDAQ:IDCC) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
InterDigital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Franchise Group. Franchise Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InterDigital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, InterDigital had 5 more articles in the media than Franchise Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for InterDigital and 0 mentions for Franchise Group. Franchise Group's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat InterDigital's score of 0.00 indicating that InterDigital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
88.8% of Franchise Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of InterDigital shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.0% of Franchise Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of InterDigital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
InterDigital received 434 more outperform votes than Franchise Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.42% of users gave InterDigital an outperform vote while only 57.78% of users gave Franchise Group an outperform vote.
InterDigital has a net margin of 31.18% compared to InterDigital's net margin of -6.52%. Franchise Group's return on equity of 32.57% beat InterDigital's return on equity.
Franchise Group currently has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.40%. InterDigital has a consensus target price of $100.00, suggesting a potential downside of 10.67%. Given InterDigital's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Franchise Group is more favorable than InterDigital.
Franchise Group pays an annual dividend of $2.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. InterDigital pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Franchise Group pays out -31.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. InterDigital pays out 23.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. InterDigital has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Franchise Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Franchise Group has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InterDigital has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
InterDigital beats Franchise Group on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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