SPOK vs. MCG, OUST, TGAN, GILT, AEHR, MTLS, AUDC, PRCH, NVX, and CTV
Should you be buying Spok stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spok include Membership Collective Group (MCG), Ouster (OUST), Transphorm (TGAN), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT), Aehr Test Systems (AEHR), Materialise (MTLS), AudioCodes (AUDC), Porch Group (PRCH), NOVONIX (NVX), and Innovid (CTV). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Spok (NASDAQ:SPOK) and Membership Collective Group (NYSE:MCG) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Spok received 187 more outperform votes than Membership Collective Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.70% of users gave Spok an outperform vote while only 27.03% of users gave Membership Collective Group an outperform vote.
Spok has a net margin of 11.93% compared to Membership Collective Group's net margin of -25.47%. Spok's return on equity of 10.23% beat Membership Collective Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Spok had 20 more articles in the media than Membership Collective Group. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Spok and 1 mentions for Membership Collective Group. Spok's average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat Membership Collective Group's score of -0.34 indicating that Spok is being referred to more favorably in the media.
50.8% of Spok shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.0% of Membership Collective Group shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% of Spok shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 73.0% of Membership Collective Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Spok has a beta of 0.27, meaning that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Membership Collective Group has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Spok has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Membership Collective Group. Membership Collective Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spok, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Spok beats Membership Collective Group on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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