As Communication Equipment company, AudioCodes Ltd. (NASDAQ:AUDC) is competing with its competitors based on the dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

34.8% of AudioCodes Ltd.’s shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.47% of all Communication Equipment’s companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.5% of AudioCodes Ltd. shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.64% of all Communication Equipment companies shares are owned by company insiders.

Profitability

On first table we have AudioCodes Ltd. and its rivals? return on assets, return on equity and net margins.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AudioCodes Ltd.	7.66%	14.80%	7.70%
Industry Average	8.06%	23.30%	7.95%

Earnings and Valuation

In next table we are comparing AudioCodes Ltd. and its rivals’ net income, valuation and top-line revenue.

	Net Income	Gross Revenue	Price/Earnings Ratio
AudioCodes Ltd.	13.49M	176.22M	30.09
Industry Average	123.59M	1.53B	50.31

AudioCodes Ltd. has lower revenue and P/E Ratio than its peers. With currently lower P/E ratio AudioCodes Ltd. is more affordable than its competitors.

Analyst Ratings

Table 3 provides breakdown of current ratings for AudioCodes Ltd. and its rivals.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AudioCodes Ltd.	0	0	0	0.00
Industry Average	1.20	2.72	2.35	2.65

As a group, Communication Equipment companies have a potential upside of 79.68%.

Performance

In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of AudioCodes Ltd. and its rivals.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
AudioCodes Ltd.	-4.96%	-4.14%	22.56%	25.66%	80.38%	35.83%
Industry Average	8.41%	12.96%	16.49%	19.22%	49.60%	24.95%

For the past year AudioCodes Ltd. was more bullish than its competitors.

Liquidity

The Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of AudioCodes Ltd. are 2.1 and 1.7. Competitively, AudioCodes Ltd.’s peers have 3.46 and 2.70 for Current and Quick Ratio. AudioCodes Ltd.’s peers have better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than AudioCodes Ltd.

Risk & Volatility

AudioCodes Ltd. has a beta of 0.76 and its 24.00% less volatile than Standard & Poor’s 500. Competitively, AudioCodes Ltd.’s rivals’ beta is 1.12 which is 11.72% more volatile than Standard & Poor’s 500.

Dividends

$0.31 per share with a dividend yield of 2.33% is the annual dividend that AudioCodes Ltd. pays. On the other side AudioCodes Ltd.’s competitors have dividend yield of 3.90%.

Summary

AudioCodes Ltd.’s peers beat on 7 of the 7 factors AudioCodes Ltd.

AudioCodes Ltd. designs, develops, and sells Voice over IP (VoIP), converged VoIP, and data networking products and applications for enterprise unified communications, contact centers, service provider business services, mobile VoIPs, and cloud virtualized data centers worldwide. It deploys its products through broadband, mobile, cable, and enterprise networks. The company’s products include chips, boards, subsystems, media and residential gateways, media servers, session border controllers, multi-service business routers, mobile communications solutions, life cycle management solutions, and messaging platforms, as well as IP phones, and survivable branch and value added applications. It also provides professional services, which supports networking devices, applications, and infrastructures. The company primarily markets and sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, system integrators, and network equipment providers in the telecommunication and networking industries. AudioCodes Ltd. was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Lod, Israel.