Both AudioCodes Ltd. (NASDAQ:AUDC) and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:GILT) are each other’s competitor in the Communication Equipment industry. Thus the compare of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AudioCodes Ltd.	176.22M	2.55	13.49M	0.45	30.09
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.	266.39M	1.76	18.41M	0.33	27.44

Table 1 showcases the gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation of AudioCodes Ltd. and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. appears to has lower earnings, but higher revenue than AudioCodes Ltd. When company has higher P/E means it is more expensive than its counterpart currently. AudioCodes Ltd. is thus currently the expensive of the two stocks because it has a higher P/E ratio.

Profitability

Table 2 represents AudioCodes Ltd. (NASDAQ:AUDC) and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ:GILT)’s return on equity, net margins and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AudioCodes Ltd.	7.66%	14.8%	7.7%
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.	6.91%	8%	4.8%

Volatility and Risk

AudioCodes Ltd. is 24.00% less volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500 due to its 0.76 beta. Competitively, Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.’s 39.00% volatility makes it less volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500, because of the 0.61 beta.

Liquidity

AudioCodes Ltd.’s Current Ratio and Quick Ratio are 2.1 and 1.7 respectively. The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of its competitor Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. are 1.8 and 1.6 respectively. AudioCodes Ltd. therefore has a better chance of paying off short and long-term obligations compared to Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.

Dividends

$0.31 per share with a dividend yield of 2.02% is the annual dividend that AudioCodes Ltd. pay. Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. also pays out annual dividends at $0.45 per share and at a 5.31% dividend yield.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

Roughly 34.8% of AudioCodes Ltd. shares are owned by institutional investors while 25.7% of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. are owned by institutional investors. AudioCodes Ltd.’s share owned by insiders are 40.5%. Comparatively, 13.2% are Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.’s share owned by insiders.

Performance

In this table we show the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	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%
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.	-2.43%	-6.07%	-6.46%	0.83%	4.19%	-1.15%

For the past year AudioCodes Ltd. had bullish trend while Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. had bearish trend.

Summary

AudioCodes Ltd. beats on 11 of the 15 factors Gilat Satellite Networks 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 companyÂ’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.

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides broadband satellite communication (Satcom) network solutions and services worldwide. The company designs, manufactures, and provides network management and equipment for Satcom, as well as professional services to satellite and Telcos. Its equipment consists of very small aperture terminals, solid-state power amplifiers, block up converters, low-profile antennas, and on-the-move/on-the-pause terminals. In addition, the company offers various solutions, including fully managed Satcom, satellite capacity, network planning and optimization, remote network operation, call center support, and hub and field operations. Further, it provides connectivity services, Internet access, and telephony services to enterprise, government, and residential customers over its own networks and over networks which Gilat installs based on build operate transfer contracts; and builds telecommunication infrastructure using fiber-optic and wireless technologies for broadband connectivity. Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. sells its products and solutions to communication service providers and operators, mobile network operators, and system integrators, as well as to defense and homeland security organizations, and directly to end-users. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel.