Analyzing Microwave Filter (MFCO) & The Competition

Insider and Institutional Ownership

61.3% of shares of all “ELEC – MISC COMPONENTS” companies are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Microwave Filter shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.1% of shares of all “ELEC – MISC COMPONENTS” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Microwave Filter and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Microwave Filter	N/A	N/A	-2.79
Microwave Filter Competitors	$2.55 billion	$168.92 million	20.28

Microwave Filter’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Microwave Filter. Microwave Filter 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.

Volatility and Risk

Microwave Filter has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Microwave Filter’s rivals have a beta of 0.95, meaning that their average share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Microwave Filter and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Microwave Filter	N/A	N/A	N/A
Microwave Filter Competitors	3.63%	-9.70%	2.05%

Summary

Microwave Filter rivals beat Microwave Filter on 7 of the 8 factors compared.

Microwave Filter Company Profile

Microwave Filter Company, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electronic filters for radio and microwave frequencies primarily in the United States. It manufactures RF filters and related components for eliminating interference and facilitating signal processing for cable television, broadcast, commercial and military communications, avionics, radar, navigation, and defense markets. The company also designs waveguide, stripline/microstrip, transmission line, miniature/subminiature, and lumped constant filters. Its configurations include bandpass, highpass, lowpass, bandstop, multiplexers, tunable notch, tunable bandpass, high power filters, amplitude equalized, delay equalized, and filter networks. The company serves 5G, cable television, television and radio broadcast, satellite broadcast, mobile radio, commercial, and aerospace and defense electronics markets. Microwave Filter Company, Inc. was incorporated in 1967 and is based in East Syracuse, New York.