ADTN vs. AUDC, CLFD, DZSI, AVYA, EXTR, INFN, HLIT, DGII, BELFB, and RBBN
Should you be buying ADTRAN stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ADTRAN include AudioCodes (AUDC), Clearfield (CLFD), DZS (DZSI), Avaya (AVYA), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Infinera (INFN), Harmonic (HLIT), Digi International (DGII), Bel Fuse (BELFB), and Ribbon Communications (RBBN).
ADTRAN (NASDAQ:ADTN) and AudioCodes (NASDAQ:AUDC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
80.6% of ADTRAN shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.1% of AudioCodes shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of ADTRAN 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, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ADTRAN has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AudioCodes has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ADTRAN received 97 more outperform votes than AudioCodes when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.84% of users gave AudioCodes an outperform vote while only 57.78% of users gave ADTRAN an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ADTRAN had 1 more articles in the media than AudioCodes. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for ADTRAN and 1 mentions for AudioCodes. AudioCodes' average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat ADTRAN's score of 0.97 indicating that AudioCodes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ADTRAN currently has a consensus target price of $7.67, indicating a potential upside of 43.57%. AudioCodes has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.12%. Given ADTRAN's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe ADTRAN is more favorable than AudioCodes.
AudioCodes has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ADTRAN. ADTRAN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AudioCodes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AudioCodes has a net margin of 4.50% compared to ADTRAN's net margin of -51.42%. AudioCodes' return on equity of 9.66% beat ADTRAN's return on equity.
Summary
AudioCodes beats ADTRAN on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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