Ooma (OOMA) Competitors

Evolent Health (NYSE:EVH) and Ooma (NYSE:OOMA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

Is EVH or OOMA more profitable?

Evolent Health has a net margin of -2.93% compared to Ooma's net margin of -3.83%. Evolent Health's return on equity of 6.30% beat Ooma's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Evolent Health	-2.93%	6.30%	2.57%
Ooma	-3.83%	-2.51%	-1.32%

Do analysts recommend EVH or OOMA?

Evolent Health currently has a consensus price target of $21.92, suggesting a potential upside of 118.84%. Ooma has a consensus price target of $16.60, suggesting a potential upside of 17.33%. Given Evolent Health's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Evolent Health is more favorable than Ooma.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Evolent Health	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Ooma	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83

Which has more risk and volatility, EVH or OOMA?

Evolent Health has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ooma has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer EVH or OOMA?

Evolent Health received 204 more outperform votes than Ooma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.57% of users gave Evolent Health an outperform vote while only 69.75% of users gave Ooma an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Evolent Health	Outperform Votes 566 74.57%	Underperform Votes 193 25.43%
Ooma	Outperform Votes 362 69.75%	Underperform Votes 157 30.25%

Does the media refer more to EVH or OOMA?

In the previous week, Evolent Health had 21 more articles in the media than Ooma. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Evolent Health and 1 mentions for Ooma. Ooma's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Evolent Health's score of 0.13 indicating that Ooma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Evolent Health	3 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	4 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Ooma	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in EVH or OOMA?

80.4% of Ooma shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Evolent Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Ooma shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, EVH or OOMA?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Evolent Health	$1.96B	0.59	-$113.04M	-$0.91	-11.01
Ooma	$236.74M	1.61	-$830K	-$0.37	-38.24

Summary

Evolent Health beats Ooma on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.