Insider & Institutional Ownership
15.1% of B.O.S. Better Online Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.5% of FalconStor Software shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of B.O.S. Better Online Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 52.8% of FalconStor Software shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares B.O.S. Better Online Solutions and FalconStor Software’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| B.O.S. Better Online Solutions | 6.66% | 19.16% | 12.00% |
| FalconStor Software | 3.68% | -2.07% | 3.31% |
Risk and Volatility
B.O.S. Better Online Solutions has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FalconStor Software has a beta of 3.19, suggesting that its stock price is 219% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| B.O.S. Better Online Solutions | $39.95 million | 0.73 | $2.30 million | $0.49 | 10.04 |
| FalconStor Software | $10.42 million | 1.34 | $690,000.00 | ($0.18) | -10.83 |
B.O.S. Better Online Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than FalconStor Software. FalconStor Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than B.O.S. Better Online Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
B.O.S. Better Online Solutions beats FalconStor Software on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About B.O.S. Better Online Solutions
B.O.S. Better Online Solutions Ltd. provides intelligent robotics, radio frequency identification (RFID), and supply chain solutions for enterprises worldwide. The Intelligent Robotics Division provides custom-made machines for industrial automation and assembly of products and packing that offer technological solutions. The RFID Division provides hardware products, such as thermal and barcode printers; RFID and barcode scanners and readers; wireless, mobile, and forklift terminals; wireless infrastructure; active and passive RFID tags; ribbons, labels, and tags; and RFID systems for libraries. It also develops Warehouse Management System, a data collection solution for logistics management in logistic centers and warehouses; RFID-based systems for tracking inventory in a produce packing house; automatic systems for industrial packing lines; automatic systems to track the production line; and automatic systems to identify and track vehicles for transportation-related settings. In addition, this segment provides maintenance and repair services for data collection equipment, as well as warehouse and on-site service plans; on-site inventory count services in various fields; and asset tagging and counting services for corporate and governmental entities. The Supply Chain Division offers electro-mechanical components, electronics components, communications products, and components consolidation services to aerospace, defense, and other industries. This segment also provides inventory and quality control management of components entering production lines; and inventory management services for ongoing projects, including warehouse functions. The company markets its products through direct sales and sales agents, as well as through distributors. B.O.S. Better Online Solutions Ltd. was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Rishon LeZion, Israel.
About FalconStor Software
FalconStor Software, Inc., a storage software company, enables enterprise customers and managed service providers to secure, migrate, and protect their data worldwide. It offers FalconStor Virtual Tape Library, a software that emulates and replaces cumbersome physical tape libraries for archive related data preservation without being replacing their enterprise backup and archive software and associated processes; FalconStor StorSafe, a long-term archive data management software; FalconStor Continuous Data Protector delivers instant data availability, and reliable recovery; and FalconStor Network Storage Server for data storage virtualization and business continuity in heterogeneous environments. The company also provides FalconStor StorSigh, a long-term archive and business continuity driven data replication from one centralized management point; FalconStor RecoverTrac Disaster Recovery Technology that streamlines the implementation, testing, and execution of disaster recovery operations; and FalconStor MicroScanTM Technology, which minimizes the amount of data transferred during replication by eliminating inefficiencies at the application and file system layer. It sells its products through authorized partners, value-added resellers, solution providers, system integrators, direct market resellers, distributors, managed service providers, cloud service providers, and original equipment manufacturers, as well as directly to customers. The company was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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