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$5.30 +0.12 (+2.32%)
Closing price 05/21/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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KVHI vs. AVNW, CMTL, AWRE, CSCO, QCOM, PANW, MSI, FFIV, JNPR, and CIEN

Should you be buying KVH Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KVH Industries include Aviat Networks (AVNW), Comtech Telecommunications (CMTL), Aware (AWRE), Cisco Systems (CSCO), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Motorola Solutions (MSI), F5 (FFIV), Juniper Networks (JNPR), and Ciena (CIEN). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment" industry.

KVH Industries vs.

Aviat Networks (NASDAQ:AVNW) and KVH Industries (NASDAQ:KVHI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.

Aviat Networks has a net margin of -0.56% compared to KVH Industries' net margin of -15.99%. Aviat Networks' return on equity of 4.33% beat KVH Industries' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Aviat Networks-0.56% 4.33% 1.98%
KVH Industries -15.99%-3.96%-3.38%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Aviat Networks$435.93M0.60$10.76M-$0.20-102.70
KVH Industries$109.98M0.94-$15.42M-$0.49-10.82

78.6% of Aviat Networks shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of KVH Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Aviat Networks shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.7% of KVH Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, KVH Industries had 2 more articles in the media than Aviat Networks. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for KVH Industries and 0 mentions for Aviat Networks. Aviat Networks' average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat KVH Industries' score of 0.93 indicating that Aviat Networks is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Aviat Networks Very Positive
KVH Industries Positive

Aviat Networks received 8 more outperform votes than KVH Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.36% of users gave Aviat Networks an outperform vote while only 64.50% of users gave KVH Industries an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Aviat NetworksOutperform Votes
266
65.36%
Underperform Votes
141
34.64%
KVH IndustriesOutperform Votes
258
64.50%
Underperform Votes
142
35.50%

Aviat Networks presently has a consensus price target of $37.60, indicating a potential upside of 83.06%. Given Aviat Networks' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Aviat Networks is more favorable than KVH Industries.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Aviat Networks
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
KVH Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Aviat Networks has a beta of 1.67, suggesting that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KVH Industries has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Aviat Networks beats KVH Industries on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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KVHI vs. The Competition

MetricKVH IndustriesRadio & t.v. communications equipment IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$103.88M$10.99B$25.09B$8.39B
Dividend YieldN/A1.67%2.90%4.10%
P/E Ratio-5.4612.9544.5919.71
Price / Sales0.945.642,088.05117.39
Price / Cash6.5112.3534.7834.62
Price / Book0.717.626.654.50
Net Income-$15.42M$371.54M$739.99M$248.18M
7 Day Performance0.57%-1.33%-0.91%0.20%
1 Month Performance9.05%16.79%12.61%12.37%
1 Year Performance1.53%33.76%52,628.86%7.04%

KVH Industries Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KVHI
KVH Industries
1.3978 of 5 stars
$5.30
+2.3%
N/A+1.3%$103.88M$109.98M-5.46650High Trading Volume
AVNW
Aviat Networks
3.3235 of 5 stars
$20.45
-1.1%
$37.60
+83.9%
-32.5%$259.55M$435.93M-102.24710Gap Up
CMTL
Comtech Telecommunications
3.1709 of 5 stars
$1.52
+2.7%
$6.38
+319.4%
-12.9%$44.61M$496.64M-0.151,990
AWRE
Aware
0.7164 of 5 stars
$1.67
flat
N/A-12.4%$35.22M$16.58M-4.6480Trending News
CSCO
Cisco Systems
4.7622 of 5 stars
$61.67
+3.2%
$65.05
+5.5%
+34.6%$245.34B$54.18B26.9383,300Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
QCOM
QUALCOMM
4.9576 of 5 stars
$152.12
+4.8%
$192.08
+26.3%
-24.7%$167.03B$42.29B16.2551,000Trending News
PANW
Palo Alto Networks
4.3903 of 5 stars
$193.50
+3.5%
$203.06
+4.9%
+16.3%$128.12B$8.57B109.0112,600News Coverage
Lockup Expiration
MSI
Motorola Solutions
4.6527 of 5 stars
$412.57
+1.5%
$513.25
+24.4%
+15.4%$68.86B$10.96B44.7520,000News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
FFIV
F5
3.7061 of 5 stars
$280.35
+3.8%
$282.56
+0.8%
+65.0%$16.10B$2.94B27.877,090Positive News
JNPR
Juniper Networks
4.3727 of 5 stars
$36.58
+0.6%
$40.00
+9.3%
+4.1%$12.23B$5.20B42.5310,900News Coverage
Positive News
CIEN
Ciena
4.3546 of 5 stars
$79.07
+5.8%
$77.62
-1.8%
+61.6%$11.24B$4.05B138.728,080Trending News
Insider Trade

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This page (NASDAQ:KVHI) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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