Qorvo (NASDAQ:QRVO) versus Towerstream (OTCMKTS:TWER) Critical Survey

Qorvo (NASDAQ:QRVO) and Towerstream (OTCMKTS:TWER) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Qorvo and Towerstream, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Qorvo	3	11	5	0	2.11
Towerstream	0	0	0	0	0.00

Qorvo currently has a consensus price target of $91.53, indicating a potential upside of 3.34%. Given Qorvo’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Qorvo is more favorable than Towerstream.

Risk and Volatility

Qorvo has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Towerstream has a beta of -568.14, meaning that its stock price is 56,914% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Qorvo and Towerstream”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Qorvo	$3.72 billion	2.21	$55.62 million	$0.58	152.71
Towerstream	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Qorvo has higher revenue and earnings than Towerstream.

Profitability

This table compares Qorvo and Towerstream’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Qorvo	1.50%	12.48%	6.87%
Towerstream	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

88.6% of Qorvo shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Qorvo shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Towerstream shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Qorvo beats Towerstream on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Qorvo

Qorvo, Inc. engages in development and commercialization of technologies and products for wireless, wired, and power markets. It operates through three segments: High Performance Analog (HPA), Connectivity and Sensors Group (CSG), and Advanced Cellular Group (ACG). The HPA segment supplies radio frequency and power management solutions for automotive, defense and aerospace, cellular infrastructure, broadband, and other markets. The CSG segment supplies connectivity and sensor components and systems featuring various technologies, such as UWB, Matter, Bluetooth Low Energy, Zigbee, Thread, Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, and MEMS-/BAW-based sensors. It serves markets, such as smart home, industrial automation, automotive, smartphones, wearables, gaming, and industrial and enterprise access points. The ACG segment supplies cellular RF solutions for smartphones, wearables, laptops, tablets, and various other devices. The company also offers foundry services for defense primes and other defense and aerospace customers. The company sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers, as well as through a network of sales representative firms and distributors. It operates in the United States, China, other Asian countries, Taiwan, and Europe. The company was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina.

About Towerstream

Towerstream Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides fixed wireless broadband services over a wireless network transmitting over regulated and unregulated radio spectrum to commercial customers in the United States. Its wireless broadband service supports bandwidth on demand, wireless redundancy, virtual private networks, disaster recovery, bundled data, and video services. The company also offers business class Internet services, such as single tenant service that delivers fixed wireless broadband to a single client through a radio receiver/transmitter on the client’s building dedicated solely to that client; and on-net services to connect building at once and at a cost similar for one high bandwidth customer requiring point-to-point equipment. In addition, it provides temporary Internet solutions to provide solutions for a client’s short-term connection requirements in locations where fiber, copper, and cable infrastructure does not exist or is cost prohibitive. Further, the company offers wholesale Internet services to deliver dedicated Internet access and point-to-point transport solutions with bandwidth options from 5Mbps to 10mbps through fixed wireless network. It serves business customers in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Philadelphia, Las Vegas-Reno, and Providence-Newport. The company offers its services through direct sales force. Towerstream Corporation was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Middletown, Rhode Island.