KVHI vs. VUZI, PCTI, AIRG, CRNT, GILT, NTGR, AVNW, CMTL, AWRE, and CAMP
Should you be buying KVH Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KVH Industries include Vuzix (VUZI), PCTEL (PCTI), Airgain (AIRG), Ceragon Networks (CRNT), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT), NETGEAR (NTGR), Aviat Networks (AVNW), Comtech Telecommunications (CMTL), Aware (AWRE), and CalAmp (CAMP). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Vuzix (NASDAQ:VUZI) and KVH Industries (NASDAQ:KVHI) 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 analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Vuzix has a beta of 1.86, suggesting that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KVH Industries has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
35.9% of Vuzix shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of KVH Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of Vuzix shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of KVH Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
KVH Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Vuzix. KVH Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vuzix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, KVH Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Vuzix. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for KVH Industries and 4 mentions for Vuzix. Vuzix's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat KVH Industries' score of 0.44 indicating that KVH Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vuzix currently has a consensus price target of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 92.31%. KVH Industries has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.72%. Given KVH Industries' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Vuzix is more favorable than KVH Industries.
KVH Industries has a net margin of -14.54% compared to KVH Industries' net margin of -502.48%. Vuzix's return on equity of -0.98% beat KVH Industries' return on equity.
Vuzix received 95 more outperform votes than KVH Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.81% of users gave Vuzix an outperform vote while only 64.50% of users gave KVH Industries an outperform vote.
Summary
KVH Industries beats Vuzix on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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