AUDC vs. CLFD, ADTN, NTGR, DZSI, FKWL, AVYA, SONM, PEGY, AKTS, and CLRO
Should you be buying AudioCodes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AudioCodes include Clearfield (CLFD), ADTRAN (ADTN), NETGEAR (NTGR), DZS (DZSI), Franklin Wireless (FKWL), Avaya (AVYA), Sonim Technologies (SONM), Pineapple Energy (PEGY), Akoustis Technologies (AKTS), and ClearOne (CLRO).
Clearfield (NASDAQ:CLFD) and AudioCodes (NASDAQ:AUDC) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Clearfield presently has a consensus target price of $42.40, indicating a potential upside of 10.82%. AudioCodes has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.12%. Given Clearfield's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AudioCodes is more favorable than Clearfield.
88.7% of Clearfield shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of AudioCodes shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Clearfield shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.8% of AudioCodes shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Clearfield has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AudioCodes has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AudioCodes received 48 more outperform votes than Clearfield when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.84% of users gave AudioCodes an outperform vote while only 60.49% of users gave Clearfield an outperform vote.
AudioCodes has a net margin of 4.50% compared to AudioCodes' net margin of -1.79%. Clearfield's return on equity of 9.66% beat AudioCodes' return on equity.
In the previous week, Clearfield had 3 more articles in the media than AudioCodes. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Clearfield and 3 mentions for AudioCodes. Clearfield's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat AudioCodes' score of 0.73 indicating that AudioCodes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Clearfield has higher revenue and earnings than AudioCodes. Clearfield is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AudioCodes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
AudioCodes beats Clearfield on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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