RFIL vs. APH, MEI, GEOS, GWH, YIBO, INTT, XNET, KEQU, PLMI, and BW
Should you be buying RF Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RF Industries include Amphenol (APH), Methode Electronics (MEI), Geospace Technologies (GEOS), ESS Tech (GWH), Planet Image International (YIBO), inTEST (INTT), Xunlei (XNET), Kewaunee Scientific (KEQU), Plum Acquisition Corp. I (PLMI), and Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (BW). 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 stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
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 has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RF Industries has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Amphenol currently has a consensus price target of $126.83, indicating a potential downside of 2.91%. RF Industries has a consensus price target of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.03%. Given Amphenol's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RF Industries is more favorable than Amphenol.
In the previous week, Amphenol had 4 more articles in the media than RF Industries. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Amphenol and 2 mentions for RF Industries. RF Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Amphenol's score of 0.25 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.
Amphenol received 354 more outperform votes than RF Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.04% of users gave Amphenol an outperform vote while only 51.84% of users gave RF Industries an outperform vote.
97.0% of Amphenol shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.5% of RF Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Amphenol shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of RF Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Amphenol beats RF Industries on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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