OCC vs. ANY, LAES, SONM, EBIXQ, EMKR, CLRO, VHC, SMSI, IZM, and TWOU
Should you be buying Optical Cable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Optical Cable include Sphere 3D (ANY), SEALSQ (LAES), Sonim Technologies (SONM), Ebix (EBIXQ), EMCORE (EMKR), ClearOne (CLRO), VirnetX (VHC), Smith Micro Software (SMSI), ICZOOM Group (IZM), and 2U (TWOU). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Sphere 3D (NASDAQ:ANY) and Optical Cable (NASDAQ:OCC) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
In the previous week, Sphere 3D and Sphere 3D both had 2 articles in the media. Sphere 3D's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Optical Cable's score of 0.21 indicating that Optical Cable is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
17.3% of Sphere 3D shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.6% of Optical Cable shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of Sphere 3D shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.0% of Optical Cable shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Optical Cable has higher revenue and earnings than Sphere 3D. Optical Cable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sphere 3D, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Optical Cable has a net margin of -0.24% compared to Optical Cable's net margin of -106.85%. Sphere 3D's return on equity of -6.09% beat Optical Cable's return on equity.
Sphere 3D has a beta of 2.78, meaning that its stock price is 178% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Optical Cable has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sphere 3D presently has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 371.70%. Given Optical Cable's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sphere 3D is more favorable than Optical Cable.
Sphere 3D received 246 more outperform votes than Optical Cable when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.59% of users gave Sphere 3D an outperform vote while only 64.60% of users gave Optical Cable an outperform vote.
Summary
Sphere 3D and Optical Cable tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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