TCX vs. OOMA, TRVG, INOD, VERI, QBTS, LTRPA, PCYG, EGHT, BCOV, and PHUN
Should you be buying Tucows stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tucows include Ooma (OOMA), trivago (TRVG), Innodata (INOD), Veritone (VERI), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), Liberty TripAdvisor (LTRPA), Park City Group (PCYG), 8X8 (EGHT), Brightcove (BCOV), and Phunware (PHUN). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Ooma (NYSE:OOMA) and Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) 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 institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Ooma has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tucows. Ooma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tucows, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ooma has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tucows has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ooma has a net margin of -0.35% compared to Ooma's net margin of -28.35%. Tucows' return on equity of 0.35% beat Ooma's return on equity.
Ooma presently has a consensus price target of $14.67, suggesting a potential upside of 102.86%. Given Tucows' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ooma is more favorable than Tucows.
In the previous week, Tucows had 2 more articles in the media than Ooma. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Tucows and 0 mentions for Ooma. Tucows' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Ooma's score of 0.00 indicating that Ooma is being referred to more favorably in the media.
80.4% of Ooma shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Tucows shares are held by institutional investors. 9.8% of Ooma shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of Tucows shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ooma received 156 more outperform votes than Tucows when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.53% of users gave Ooma an outperform vote while only 59.00% of users gave Tucows an outperform vote.
Summary
Ooma beats Tucows on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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