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KOSS vs. ESCA, FNKO, CLAR, TRON, AOUT, GNSS, YYAI, KBSX, DTC, and FTEL

Should you be buying Koss stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Koss include Escalade (ESCA), Funko (FNKO), Clarus (CLAR), Tron (TRON), American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), Genasys (GNSS), Connexa Sports Technologies (YYAI), FST (KBSX), Solo Brands (DTC), and Fitell (FTEL). These companies are all part of the "recreation" industry.

Koss vs. Its Competitors

Escalade (NASDAQ:ESCA) and Koss (NASDAQ:KOSS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.

Escalade has higher revenue and earnings than Koss. Koss is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Escalade, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Escalade$251.51M0.74$12.99M$0.9114.73
Koss$12.27M4.95-$950K-$0.08-81.00

In the previous week, Escalade had 5 more articles in the media than Koss. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Escalade and 3 mentions for Koss. Koss' average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Escalade's score of -0.18 indicating that Koss is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Escalade
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Koss
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Escalade has a net margin of 5.30% compared to Koss' net margin of -6.06%. Escalade's return on equity of 6.86% beat Koss' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Escalade5.30% 6.86% 5.09%
Koss -6.06%-2.44%-2.01%

Escalade has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Koss has a beta of -1.68, suggesting that its share price is 268% less volatile than the S&P 500.

65.2% of Escalade shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.2% of Koss shares are held by institutional investors. 28.8% of Escalade shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 46.7% of Koss shares are held by company 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

Escalade beats Koss on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding KOSS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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KOSS vs. The Competition

MetricKossAUDIO/VIDEO PRD IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$60.78M$18.59B$8.51B$9.76B
Dividend YieldN/A1.05%3.02%4.04%
P/E Ratio-81.006.5617.9726.05
Price / Sales4.951.945.60122.40
Price / CashN/A39.0515.0628.78
Price / Book1.922.034.906.07
Net Income-$950K$705.28M$226.50M$265.39M
7 Day Performance5.54%-3.27%14.93%1.56%
1 Month Performance17.39%-2.47%13.33%0.48%
1 Year Performance-29.79%47.50%46.53%18.88%

Koss Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KOSS
Koss
0.6822 of 5 stars
$6.48
+5.2%
N/A-29.8%$60.78M$12.27M-81.0030Upcoming Earnings
ESCA
Escalade
4.2564 of 5 stars
$12.24
+3.7%
N/A-4.8%$162.88M$251.51M13.45590News Coverage
FNKO
Funko
3.2274 of 5 stars
$2.79
+13.4%
$9.88
+253.9%
-70.5%$135.14M$1.05B-2.311,283High Trading Volume
CLAR
Clarus
4.5873 of 5 stars
$3.21
-7.0%
$4.75
+48.0%
-18.9%$132.49M$264.32M-1.49900Gap Up
TRON
Tron
N/A$6.86
-1.6%
N/A+536.6%$124.30M$4.31M-36.11N/ATrending News
AOUT
American Outdoor Brands
2.7205 of 5 stars
$9.13
-0.9%
$15.00
+64.3%
+12.8%$117.50M$222.32M-912.09320News Coverage
GNSS
Genasys
3.9227 of 5 stars
$1.63
+1.2%
$5.33
+227.2%
-34.1%$72.70M$24.01M-2.55170
YYAI
Connexa Sports Technologies
0.4934 of 5 stars
$4.11
-13.5%
N/A-33.1%$69.17M$8.40M-0.368News Coverage
Gap Down
KBSX
FST
N/A$1.67
-1.2%
N/AN/A$63.80M$36.50M-4.77N/ANews Coverage
Gap Up
DTC
Solo Brands
3.4593 of 5 stars
$8.14
-8.7%
$40.00
+391.4%
-83.3%$18.79M$446.48M-0.10300News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
FTEL
Fitell
N/A$0.47
-3.0%
N/A-97.2%$10.13M$4.47M0.0011Short Interest ↓
Gap Down

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This page (NASDAQ:KOSS) was last updated on 8/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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