RFIL vs. DAIO, NTWK, MRDB, CREX, DTST, LGL, FKWL, SQNS, VIOT, and AWRE
Should you be buying RF Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RF Industries include Data I/O (DAIO), NetSol Technologies (NTWK), MariaDB (MRDB), Creative Realities (CREX), Data Storage (DTST), The LGL Group (LGL), Franklin Wireless (FKWL), Sequans Communications (SQNS), Viomi Technology (VIOT), and Aware (AWRE). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
RF Industries (NASDAQ:RFIL) and Data I/O (NASDAQ:DAIO) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
RF Industries received 53 more outperform votes than Data I/O when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.41% of users gave Data I/O an outperform vote while only 52.57% of users gave RF Industries an outperform vote.
23.5% of RF Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.0% of Data I/O shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.2% of RF Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Data I/O shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Data I/O has a net margin of 1.73% compared to RF Industries' net margin of -4.87%. Data I/O's return on equity of 2.46% beat RF Industries' return on equity.
RF Industries has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Data I/O has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
RF Industries presently has a consensus target price of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.59%. Given RF Industries' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe RF Industries is more favorable than Data I/O.
In the previous week, RF Industries and RF Industries both had 2 articles in the media. RF Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Data I/O'saverage media sentiment score.
Data I/O has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RF Industries. RF Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Data I/O, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Data I/O beats RF Industries on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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