HLIT vs. AUDC, CLFD, ANET, OOMA, CALX, EXTR, VSAT, BELFB, DGII, and ADTN
Should you be buying Harmonic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harmonic include AudioCodes (AUDC), Clearfield (CLFD), Arista Networks (ANET), Ooma (OOMA), Calix (CALX), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Viasat (VSAT), Bel Fuse (BELFB), Digi International (DGII), and ADTRAN (ADTN).
Harmonic vs. Its Competitors
AudioCodes (NASDAQ:AUDC) and Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
AudioCodes has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harmonic has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Harmonic has a net margin of 9.96% compared to AudioCodes' net margin of 5.66%. Harmonic's return on equity of 17.83% beat AudioCodes' return on equity.
Harmonic has higher revenue and earnings than AudioCodes. Harmonic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AudioCodes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AudioCodes presently has a consensus target price of $11.25, suggesting a potential upside of 14.80%. Harmonic has a consensus target price of $11.67, suggesting a potential upside of 29.56%. Given Harmonic's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Harmonic is more favorable than AudioCodes.
In the previous week, AudioCodes and AudioCodes both had 5 articles in the media. Harmonic's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat AudioCodes' score of 0.18 indicating that Harmonic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
68.1% of AudioCodes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of Harmonic shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.8% of AudioCodes shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Harmonic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Harmonic beats AudioCodes on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:HLIT) was last updated on 8/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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