GOGO vs. ORBC, VSAT, WIFI, UCL, SATS, CCOI, CALX, GSAT, ASTS, and SLAM
Should you be buying Gogo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gogo include ORBCOMM (ORBC), Viasat (VSAT), Boingo Wireless (WIFI), uCloudlink Group (UCL), EchoStar (SATS), Cogent Communications (CCOI), Calix (CALX), Globalstar (GSAT), AST SpaceMobile (ASTS), and Slam (SLAM).
Gogo (NASDAQ:GOGO) and ORBCOMM (NASDAQ:ORBC) 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 earnings, risk, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Gogo currently has a consensus target price of $15.30, suggesting a potential upside of 44.54%. Given Gogo's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Gogo is more favorable than ORBCOMM.
Gogo received 16 more outperform votes than ORBCOMM when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.91% of users gave ORBCOMM an outperform vote while only 56.29% of users gave Gogo an outperform vote.
Gogo has a net margin of 38.61% compared to ORBCOMM's net margin of -15.10%. Gogo's return on equity of 229.65% beat ORBCOMM's return on equity.
Gogo has higher revenue and earnings than ORBCOMM. ORBCOMM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gogo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
69.6% of Gogo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of ORBCOMM shares are held by institutional investors. 26.0% of Gogo shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of ORBCOMM shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Gogo had 2 more articles in the media than ORBCOMM. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Gogo and 1 mentions for ORBCOMM. Gogo's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat ORBCOMM's score of 0.53 indicating that Gogo is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gogo has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ORBCOMM has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Gogo beats ORBCOMM on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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