IBEX vs. OOMA, GSMG, VERI, SSNT, SJ, TIXT, YEXT, PGRU, GB, and LGCL
Should you be buying IBEX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IBEX include Ooma (OOMA), Glory Star New Media Group (GSMG), Veritone (VERI), SilverSun Technologies (SSNT), Scienjoy (SJ), TELUS International (Cda) (TIXT), Yext (YEXT), PropertyGuru Group (PGRU), Global Blue Group (GB), and Lucas GC (LGCL).
Ooma (NYSE:OOMA) and IBEX (NASDAQ:IBEX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Ooma has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IBEX has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
IBEX has a net margin of 5.57% compared to IBEX's net margin of -0.35%. Ooma's return on equity of 20.23% beat IBEX's return on equity.
Ooma received 325 more outperform votes than IBEX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.53% of users gave Ooma an outperform vote while only 41.33% of users gave IBEX an outperform vote.
Ooma currently has a consensus target price of $14.67, suggesting a potential upside of 85.89%. IBEX has a consensus target price of $19.20, suggesting a potential upside of 24.76%. Given IBEX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ooma is more favorable than IBEX.
In the previous week, IBEX had 3 more articles in the media than Ooma. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for IBEX and 9 mentions for Ooma. Ooma's average media sentiment score of -0.01 beat IBEX's score of -0.39 indicating that IBEX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IBEX has higher revenue and earnings than Ooma. Ooma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IBEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.4% of Ooma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.2% of IBEX shares are held by institutional investors. 9.8% of Ooma shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.8% of IBEX shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
IBEX beats Ooma on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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