Critical Review: Sangoma Technologies (SANG) vs. Its Peers

Sangoma Technologies (NASDAQ:SANG – Get Rating) is one of 682 publicly-traded companies in the “Holding & other investment offices” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Sangoma Technologies to similar companies based on the strength of its dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Sangoma Technologies and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sangoma Technologies	$136.23 million	$600,000.00	-75.38
Sangoma Technologies Competitors	$1.23 billion	$57.83 million	-17.01

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

51.1% of shares of all “Holding & other investment offices” companies are owned by institutional investors. 23.3% of shares of all “Holding & other investment offices” companies 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Sangoma Technologies and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sangoma Technologies	0	0	0	0	N/A
Sangoma Technologies Competitors	172	673	954	20	2.45

Sangoma Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 143.18%. As a group, “Holding & other investment offices” companies have a potential upside of 69.95%. Given Sangoma Technologies’ higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Sangoma Technologies is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Sangoma Technologies and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sangoma Technologies	-4.29%	-2.25%	-1.57%
Sangoma Technologies Competitors	49.62%	-28.80%	2.69%

Summary

Sangoma Technologies peers beat Sangoma Technologies on 7 of the 9 factors compared.

About Sangoma Technologies (Get Rating)

Sangoma Technologies Corporation develops, manufactures, distributes, and supports voice and data connectivity components for software-based communication applications worldwide. The company offers Switchvox, a business phone system; PBXact, a phone system; Internet protocol (IP) phones; service provider and voice over Internet protocol gateways; Switchvox Cloud, a unified communications solution; SIPstation SIP Trunking, a hosted session initiation protocol trunking service; PBXact Cloud, a cloud based private branch exchange service; Asterisk and FreePBX, an open source IP PBX software; and FAXStation, a fax-over-IP solution. It also provides session border controllers; telephony and media transcoding cards; and open source communications software. The company serves small and medium sized businesses, enterprises, original equipment manufacturers, carriers, and service providers. Sangoma Technologies Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Markham, Canada.