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. Its Competitors
Aviat Networks (NASDAQ:AVNW) and KVH Industries (NASDAQ:KVHI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Aviat Networks currently has a consensus target price of $37.60, suggesting a potential upside of 65.09%. Given Aviat Networks' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aviat Networks is more favorable than KVH Industries.
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.
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.
Aviat Networks has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KVH Industries has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, KVH Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Aviat Networks. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for KVH Industries and 3 mentions for Aviat Networks. Aviat Networks' average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat KVH Industries' score of 0.22 indicating that Aviat Networks is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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, 21.1% of KVH Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
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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This page (NASDAQ:KVHI) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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