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Quarterhill (QTRH) Competitors

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QTRH vs. APPS, ACTG, JYNT, REFR, VHC, RMCO, AMOD, XELB, DLB, and IDCC

Should you be buying Quarterhill stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quarterhill include Digital Turbine (APPS), Acacia Research (ACTG), Joint (JYNT), Research Frontiers (REFR), VirnetX (VHC), Royalty Management (RMCO), Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. - Class A Common Stock (AMOD), Xcel Brands (XELB), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), and InterDigital (IDCC).

Quarterhill vs.

Quarterhill (NASDAQ:QTRH) and Digital Turbine (NASDAQ:APPS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Quarterhill has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Digital Turbine has a beta of 2.43, suggesting that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Digital Turbine has a consensus target price of $2.38, suggesting a potential downside of 10.21%. Given Digital Turbine's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Digital Turbine is more favorable than Quarterhill.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Quarterhill
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Digital Turbine
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

In the previous week, Digital Turbine had 10 more articles in the media than Quarterhill. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Digital Turbine and 0 mentions for Quarterhill. Digital Turbine's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Quarterhill's score of 0.00 indicating that Digital Turbine is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Quarterhill Neutral
Digital Turbine Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Quarterhill$77.40M1.61-$49.12M-$0.24-4.38
Digital Turbine$483.58M0.57-$420.23M-$3.03-0.87

10.2% of Quarterhill shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.7% of Digital Turbine shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of Digital Turbine shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Quarterhill has a net margin of -11.31% compared to Digital Turbine's net margin of -64.06%. Digital Turbine's return on equity of 3.41% beat Quarterhill's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Quarterhill-11.31% -6.62% -5.54%
Digital Turbine -64.06%3.41%0.76%

Digital Turbine received 231 more outperform votes than Quarterhill when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.93% of users gave Digital Turbine an outperform vote while only 66.01% of users gave Quarterhill an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
QuarterhillOutperform Votes
200
66.01%
Underperform Votes
103
33.99%
Digital TurbineOutperform Votes
431
66.93%
Underperform Votes
213
33.07%

Summary

Digital Turbine beats Quarterhill on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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QTRH vs. The Competition

MetricQuarterhillPatent Owners & Lessors IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$124.76M$999.81M$7.03B$7.68B
Dividend Yield3.33%5.01%2.53%4.02%
P/E Ratio-4.385.8129.4918.55
Price / Sales1.61538.90143.3588.66
Price / CashN/A12.4231.4034.64
Price / Book0.612.964.604.11
Net Income-$49.12M$7.52M$195.05M$247.18M

Quarterhill Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
QTRH
Quarterhill
N/A$1.05
flat
N/AN/A$124.76M$77.40M-4.38361
APPS
Digital Turbine
1.5593 of 5 stars
$3.65
+3.7%
$2.38
-34.9%
+8.4%$383.28M$483.58M-1.20840Short Interest ↑
ACTG
Acacia Research
1.7455 of 5 stars
$3.40
-0.6%
N/A-37.9%$326.69M$122.31M6.42290Positive News
JYNT
Joint
3.909 of 5 stars
$12.78
+0.4%
$17.50
+36.9%
-3.1%$193.94M$51.90M-11.21320Positive News
High Trading Volume
REFR
Research Frontiers
0.3116 of 5 stars
$1.16
-4.1%
N/A-12.3%$39.03M$1.34M-38.676High Trading Volume
VHC
VirnetX
0.3194 of 5 stars
$8.01
-9.9%
N/A+19.8%$33.95M$5,000.00-1.5020Gap Up
RMCO
Royalty Management
2.4504 of 5 stars
$1.15
flat
N/A-4.3%$17.17M$568,896.000.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
AMOD
Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. - Class A Common Stock
N/A$1.65
-5.2%
N/AN/A$10.76MN/A0.00N/A
XELB
Xcel Brands
1.4257 of 5 stars
$0.38
+20.2%
N/A-61.2%$9.13M$9.34M-0.3780Analyst Forecast
Stock Split
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
DLB
Dolby Laboratories
4.7635 of 5 stars
$81.65
+1.1%
$100.00
+22.5%
-4.6%$7.79B$1.32B30.022,340Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
IDCC
InterDigital
1.5618 of 5 stars
$221.60
+2.0%
$120.00
-45.8%
+97.3%$5.69B$868.52M18.41420Positive News
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This page (NASDAQ:QTRH) was last updated on 3/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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