RBBN vs. TUFN, BAND, AUDC, ASUR, VSAT, EXTR, HLIT, INFN, DGII, and BELFB
Should you be buying Ribbon Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ribbon Communications include Tufin Software Technologies (TUFN), Bandwidth (BAND), AudioCodes (AUDC), Asure Software (ASUR), Viasat (VSAT), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Harmonic (HLIT), Infinera (INFN), Digi International (DGII), and Bel Fuse (BELFB).
Ribbon Communications (NASDAQ:RBBN) and Tufin Software Technologies (NYSE:TUFN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.
Tufin Software Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ribbon Communications. Tufin Software Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ribbon Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ribbon Communications received 419 more outperform votes than Tufin Software Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.84% of users gave Ribbon Communications an outperform vote while only 61.59% of users gave Tufin Software Technologies an outperform vote.
Ribbon Communications has a net margin of -7.11% compared to Tufin Software Technologies' net margin of -37.30%. Ribbon Communications' return on equity of 4.32% beat Tufin Software Technologies' return on equity.
Ribbon Communications has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tufin Software Technologies has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
70.9% of Ribbon Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.6% of Tufin Software Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Ribbon Communications shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ribbon Communications had 1 more articles in the media than Tufin Software Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ribbon Communications and 0 mentions for Tufin Software Technologies. Ribbon Communications' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Tufin Software Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Ribbon Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ribbon Communications presently has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 102.70%. Given Ribbon Communications' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ribbon Communications is more favorable than Tufin Software Technologies.
Summary
Ribbon Communications beats Tufin Software Technologies on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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