RFIL vs. APH, MEI, CBAT, TSAT, INTT, NAAS, PLMI, SANG, ATOM, and STG
Should you be buying RF Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RF Industries include Amphenol (APH), Methode Electronics (MEI), CBAK Energy Technology (CBAT), Telesat (TSAT), inTEST (INTT), NaaS Technology (NAAS), Plum Acquisition Corp. I (PLMI), Sangoma Technologies (SANG), Atomera (ATOM), and Sunlands Technology Group (STG). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Amphenol (NYSE:APH) and RF Industries (NASDAQ:RFIL) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking and earnings.
Amphenol presently has a consensus target price of $127.91, indicating a potential downside of 3.37%. RF Industries has a consensus target price of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.61%. Given Amphenol's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe RF Industries is more favorable than Amphenol.
Amphenol has higher revenue and earnings than RF Industries. RF Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amphenol, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amphenol received 354 more outperform votes than RF Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.12% of users gave Amphenol an outperform vote while only 51.96% of users gave RF Industries an outperform vote.
Amphenol has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RF Industries has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
97.0% of Amphenol shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.5% of RF Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Amphenol shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of RF Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Amphenol had 6 more articles in the media than RF Industries. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Amphenol and 4 mentions for RF Industries. RF Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Amphenol's score of 0.37 indicating that Amphenol is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Amphenol has a net margin of 15.87% compared to Amphenol's net margin of -4.87%. RF Industries' return on equity of 23.85% beat Amphenol's return on equity.
Summary
Amphenol beats RF Industries on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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