RFIL vs. LGL, NTWK, DAIO, SQNS, NCTY, DTST, ARBB, MRDB, SYPR, and HRYU
Should you be buying RF Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RF Industries include The LGL Group (LGL), NetSol Technologies (NTWK), Data I/O (DAIO), Sequans Communications (SQNS), The9 (NCTY), Data Storage (DTST), ARB IOT Group (ARBB), MariaDB (MRDB), Sypris Solutions (SYPR), and Hanryu (HRYU). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
The LGL Group (NYSE:LGL) and RF Industries (NASDAQ:RFIL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
The LGL Group has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RF Industries has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The LGL Group had 9 more articles in the media than RF Industries. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for The LGL Group and 1 mentions for RF Industries. The LGL Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat RF Industries' score of -0.11 indicating that RF Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
30.3% of The LGL Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.5% of RF Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of The LGL Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of RF Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
RF Industries has a consensus target price of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 35.59%. Given The LGL Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe RF Industries is more favorable than The LGL Group.
RF Industries received 225 more outperform votes than The LGL Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.33% of users gave RF Industries an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave The LGL Group an outperform vote.
The LGL Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than RF Industries.
The LGL Group has a net margin of 0.00% compared to The LGL Group's net margin of -4.87%. RF Industries' return on equity of -0.91% beat The LGL Group's return on equity.
Summary
The LGL Group beats RF Industries on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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