LRAD vs. GNSS, KOSS, KUKE, NFTG, PLBY, WFCF, NTZ, CLOE, NHTC, and BODI
Should you be buying LRAD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LRAD include Genasys (GNSS), Koss (KOSS), Kuke Music (KUKE), NFT Gaming (NFTG), PLBY Group (PLBY), Where Food Comes From (WFCF), Natuzzi (NTZ), Clover Leaf Capital (CLOE), Natural Health Trends (NHTC), and Beachbody (BODI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Genasys (NASDAQ:GNSS) and LRAD (NASDAQ:LRAD) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
40.0% of Genasys shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.6% of LRAD shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Genasys shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of LRAD shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
LRAD has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Genasys. LRAD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genasys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Genasys currently has a consensus target price of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 61.29%. Given LRAD's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Genasys is more favorable than LRAD.
Genasys has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LRAD has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Genasys and Genasys both had 2 articles in the media. LRAD's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Genasys' score of 0.00 indicating that Genasys is being referred to more favorably in the media.
LRAD received 163 more outperform votes than Genasys when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.60% of users gave LRAD an outperform vote while only 44.74% of users gave Genasys an outperform vote.
LRAD has a net margin of 1.29% compared to LRAD's net margin of -53.32%. Genasys' return on equity of 1.25% beat LRAD's return on equity.
Summary
LRAD beats Genasys on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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