ITI vs. REKR, HEAR, MX, ULBI, TCX, EGAN, ASUR, COMM, APPS, and OOMA
Should you be buying Iteris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Iteris include Rekor Systems (REKR), Turtle Beach (HEAR), Magnachip Semiconductor (MX), Ultralife (ULBI), Tucows (TCX), eGain (EGAN), Asure Software (ASUR), CommScope (COMM), Digital Turbine (APPS), and Ooma (OOMA). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Rekor Systems (NASDAQ:REKR) and Iteris (NASDAQ:ITI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Iteris has a net margin of 1.45% compared to Iteris' net margin of -130.78%. Rekor Systems' return on equity of 3.76% beat Iteris' return on equity.
Rekor Systems presently has a consensus price target of $3.88, indicating a potential upside of 100.78%. Iteris has a consensus price target of $9.75, indicating a potential upside of 111.96%. Given Rekor Systems' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Iteris is more favorable than Rekor Systems.
Iteris has higher revenue and earnings than Rekor Systems. Rekor Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iteris, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Iteris received 220 more outperform votes than Rekor Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.94% of users gave Iteris an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave Rekor Systems an outperform vote.
45.7% of Rekor Systems shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.2% of Iteris shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Rekor Systems shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Iteris shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Rekor Systems has a beta of 2.2, indicating that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Iteris has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Iteris had 5 more articles in the media than Rekor Systems. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Iteris and 4 mentions for Rekor Systems. Iteris' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Rekor Systems' score of 0.67 indicating that Rekor Systems is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Iteris beats Rekor Systems on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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