BCOV vs. PHUN, LTRPA, DTST, CHR, HTCR, VERI, INOD, TRVG, OOMA, and TCX
Should you be buying Brightcove stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brightcove include Phunware (PHUN), Liberty TripAdvisor (LTRPA), Data Storage (DTST), Cheer (CHR), HeartCore Enterprises (HTCR), Veritone (VERI), Innodata (INOD), trivago (TRVG), Ooma (OOMA), and Tucows (TCX). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Phunware (NASDAQ:PHUN) and Brightcove (NASDAQ:BCOV) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk and community ranking.
Brightcove has higher revenue and earnings than Phunware. Brightcove is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Phunware, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
7.6% of Phunware shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.1% of Brightcove shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Phunware shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Brightcove shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Phunware had 5 more articles in the media than Brightcove. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Phunware and 2 mentions for Brightcove. Brightcove's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Phunware's score of 0.04 indicating that Phunware is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Phunware has a beta of 2.43, meaning that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brightcove has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brightcove has a net margin of -11.38% compared to Brightcove's net margin of -257.36%. Phunware's return on equity of -17.02% beat Brightcove's return on equity.
Brightcove received 322 more outperform votes than Phunware when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.14% of users gave Brightcove an outperform vote while only 65.09% of users gave Phunware an outperform vote.
Phunware presently has a consensus price target of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 194.57%. Brightcove has a consensus price target of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 150.78%. Given Brightcove's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Phunware is more favorable than Brightcove.
Summary
Brightcove beats Phunware on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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