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Quarterhill (QTRH) Competitors

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QTRH vs. APPS, ACTG, JYNT, REFR, VHC, RMCO, AMOD, XELB, DLB, and IDCC

Should you be buying Quarterhill stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quarterhill include Digital Turbine (APPS), Acacia Research (ACTG), Joint (JYNT), Research Frontiers (REFR), VirnetX (VHC), Royalty Management (RMCO), Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. - Class A Common Stock (AMOD), Xcel Brands (XELB), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), and InterDigital (IDCC).

Quarterhill vs.

Digital Turbine (NASDAQ:APPS) and Quarterhill (NASDAQ:QTRH) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.

Digital Turbine has a beta of 2.41, indicating that its share price is 141% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quarterhill has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Digital Turbine had 2 more articles in the media than Quarterhill. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Digital Turbine and 0 mentions for Quarterhill. Digital Turbine's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Quarterhill's score of 0.00 indicating that Digital Turbine is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Digital Turbine Neutral
Quarterhill Neutral

Quarterhill has a net margin of -11.31% compared to Digital Turbine's net margin of -64.06%. Digital Turbine's return on equity of 3.41% beat Quarterhill's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Digital Turbine-64.06% 3.41% 0.76%
Quarterhill -11.31%-6.62%-5.54%

63.7% of Digital Turbine shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of Quarterhill shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Digital Turbine shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Digital Turbine presently has a consensus price target of $2.38, indicating a potential downside of 45.53%. Given Digital Turbine's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Digital Turbine is more favorable than Quarterhill.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Digital Turbine
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Quarterhill
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Quarterhill has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Digital Turbine. Quarterhill is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Digital Turbine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Digital Turbine$483.58M0.95-$420.23M-$3.03-1.44
Quarterhill$77.40M1.60-$49.12M-$0.24-4.34

Digital Turbine received 231 more outperform votes than Quarterhill when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.93% of users gave Digital Turbine an outperform vote while only 66.01% of users gave Quarterhill an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Digital TurbineOutperform Votes
431
66.93%
Underperform Votes
213
33.07%
QuarterhillOutperform Votes
200
66.01%
Underperform Votes
103
33.99%

Summary

Digital Turbine beats Quarterhill on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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QTRH vs. The Competition

MetricQuarterhillPatent Owners & Lessors IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$123.81M$937.56M$24.22B$8.31B
Dividend Yield3.33%5.35%2.62%4.10%
P/E Ratio-4.345.8032.5319.60
Price / Sales1.60948.51252.54117.96
Price / CashN/A12.4230.9334.62
Price / Book0.613.355.384.50
Net Income-$49.12M$7.52M$195.96M$248.40M

Quarterhill Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
QTRH
Quarterhill
N/A$1.04
-3.3%
N/A-12.4%$123.81M$77.40M-4.34361Gap Down
APPS
Digital Turbine
1.5618 of 5 stars
$4.87
+4.8%
$2.38
-51.2%
+89.3%$500.88M$483.58M-1.57840News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
ACTG
Acacia Research
0.7859 of 5 stars
$3.83
+1.6%
N/A-35.2%$368.34M$222.41M7.23290Analyst Upgrade
JYNT
Joint
3.4375 of 5 stars
$10.13
+0.6%
$15.50
+53.1%
-40.5%$154.25M$52.79M-8.84320News Coverage
REFR
Research Frontiers
0.4203 of 5 stars
$1.60
-1.2%
N/A-10.4%$53.63M$1.58M-53.336
VHC
VirnetX
0.7238 of 5 stars
$8.49
+1.4%
N/A+69.1%$35.99M$5,000.00-1.5920News Coverage
Gap Down
RMCO
Royalty Management
0.8703 of 5 stars
$1.18
+1.7%
N/A+15.0%$17.65M$807,089.00-59.00N/ANews Coverage
AMOD
Alpha Modus Holdings, Inc. - Class A Common Stock
N/A$1.22
-4.3%
N/AN/A$15.23MN/A0.00N/APositive News
Analyst Upgrade
XELB
Xcel Brands
0.6817 of 5 stars
$2.71
-4.9%
N/A-66.1%$6.22M$9.34M-2.5480Analyst Revision
Gap Down
DLB
Dolby Laboratories
4.8867 of 5 stars
$76.99
+0.1%
$102.33
+32.9%
-6.9%$7.33B$1.32B28.232,340Positive News
IDCC
InterDigital
2.3045 of 5 stars
$216.31
-0.5%
$160.00
-26.0%
+92.1%$5.60B$815.48M17.93420Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:QTRH) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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