Critical Analysis: Video Display (VIDE) versus The Competition

Volatility and Risk

Video Display has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Video Display’s rivals have a beta of 0.95, suggesting that their average stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Video Display and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Video Display	N/A	N/A	N/A
Video Display Competitors	3.63%	-9.70%	2.05%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Video Display and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Video Display	$8.30 million	-$130,000.00	0.00
Video Display Competitors	$2.56 billion	$168.92 million	19.17

Video Display’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Video Display. Video Display is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

61.3% of shares of all “ELEC – MISC COMPONENTS” companies are owned by institutional investors. 48.8% of Video Display shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.2% of shares of all “ELEC – MISC COMPONENTS” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Video Display rivals beat Video Display on 7 of the 9 factors compared.

Video Display Company Profile

Video Display Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, distributes, and installs display products and systems for government, military, aerospace, medical, and commercial organizations worldwide. The company operates in four divisions: Simulation and Training Products; Cyber Secure Products; Data Display CRTs; and Other Computer Products. It offers dome and multi-faceted aircraft simulator display systems, video walls for broadcast and control centers, rugged video walls for combat information centers, rugged flat panel displays and computers, projector and monitor upgrades, and projection screens. The company also provides cyber security products, such as TEMPEST technology products and custom engineering solutions; and various contract services, including the design and testing solutions for defense and niche commercial uses. In addition, it manufactures and distributes cathode ray tubes (CRTs) for use in data display screens, such as computer terminal monitors, medical monitoring equipment, and various other data display applications, as well as in television sets; and distributes CRTs and other electronic tubes purchased from original equipment manufacturers, as well as offers cyber-secure keyboards. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Cocoa, Florida.