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$5.28 0.00 (0.00%)
Closing price 07/25/2025 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. Its Competitors

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

Aviat Networks currently has a consensus price target of $37.60, indicating a potential upside of 62.14%. Given Aviat Networks' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly 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 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$435.93M0.68$10.76M-$0.20-115.95
KVH Industries$113.83M0.91-$11.05M-$0.49-10.78

In the previous week, Aviat Networks had 1 more articles in the media than KVH Industries. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Aviat Networks and 2 mentions for KVH Industries. Aviat Networks' average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat KVH Industries' score of 1.28 indicating that Aviat Networks is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Aviat Networks
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
KVH Industries
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

78.6% of Aviat Networks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of KVH Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Aviat Networks shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.1% of KVH Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Aviat Networks has a net margin of -0.53% compared to KVH Industries' net margin of -8.72%. Aviat Networks' return on equity of 5.06% beat KVH Industries' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Aviat Networks-0.53% 5.06% 2.18%
KVH Industries -8.72%-4.47%-3.91%

Aviat Networks has a beta of 1.58, suggesting that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, KVH Industries has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Aviat Networks beats KVH Industries on 13 of the 16 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 KVHI 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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KVHI vs. The Competition

MetricKVH IndustriesCommunications Components IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$103.49M$3.79B$28.85B$9.50B
Dividend YieldN/A2.40%3.01%4.01%
P/E Ratio-10.7861.0534.2920.08
Price / Sales0.912.111,707.9889.23
Price / Cash11.8218.5038.3858.56
Price / Book0.752.477.795.88
Net Income-$11.05M-$16.41M$782.91M$258.72M
7 Day Performance-1.31%0.33%0.79%3.72%
1 Month Performance-0.38%6.31%6.11%11.73%
1 Year Performance11.63%15.88%52,641.05%18.02%

KVH Industries Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KVHI
KVH Industries
2.6492 of 5 stars
$5.28
flat
N/A+10.5%$103.49M$113.83M-10.78650Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
High Trading Volume
AVNW
Aviat Networks
3.4656 of 5 stars
$23.63
0.0%
$37.60
+59.1%
-21.5%$301.06M$408.08M-118.15710News Coverage
Positive News
CMTL
Comtech Telecommunications
4.3641 of 5 stars
$2.35
-2.9%
$6.00
+155.3%
-27.9%$71.14M$540.40M-0.231,676Positive News
AWRE
Aware
1.1454 of 5 stars
$2.31
flat
N/A+21.4%$48.72M$17.39M-9.2480Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
CSCO
Cisco Systems
4.7351 of 5 stars
$68.34
+0.4%
$70.35
+2.9%
+45.4%$269.48B$53.80B27.8990,400Positive News
QCOM
QUALCOMM
4.9714 of 5 stars
$158.97
+2.7%
$184.86
+16.3%
-9.7%$169.97B$38.96B16.4749,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Upgrade
PANW
Palo Alto Networks
4.1197 of 5 stars
$199.88
+2.1%
$209.16
+4.6%
+27.0%$130.55B$8.03B115.1715,289Positive News
Analyst Forecast
MSI
Motorola Solutions
4.8531 of 5 stars
$420.72
+0.1%
$510.67
+21.4%
+11.0%$70.18B$10.82B32.2221,000News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
FFIV
F5
4.1221 of 5 stars
$300.12
-0.7%
$291.44
-2.9%
+72.3%$17.35B$2.82B26.556,557Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
JNPR
Juniper Networks
2.65 of 5 stars
$39.95
flat
$40.00
+0.1%
N/A$13.36B$5.20B38.053,519Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
CIEN
Ciena
4.2442 of 5 stars
$85.36
+0.4%
$85.54
+0.2%
+77.8%$12.01B$4.01B118.568,657

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This page (NASDAQ:KVHI) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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