Airgain (NASDAQ:AIRG – Get Free Report) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Profitability
This table compares Airgain and F5’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Airgain | -13.65% | -13.72% | -8.74% |
| F5 | 21.95% | 21.54% | 12.16% |
Volatility & Risk
Airgain has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Airgain | $51.78 million | 1.36 | -$6.43 million | ($0.56) | -9.59 |
| F5 | $3.09 billion | 7.31 | $692.38 million | $12.56 | 31.73 |
F5 has higher revenue and earnings than Airgain. Airgain is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than F5, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Airgain and F5, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Airgain | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2.60 |
| F5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2.36 |
Airgain currently has a consensus price target of $7.70, indicating a potential upside of 43.39%. F5 has a consensus price target of $416.62, indicating a potential upside of 4.55%. Given Airgain’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Airgain is more favorable than F5.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
52.8% of Airgain shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are held by institutional investors. 17.5% of Airgain shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of F5 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
F5 beats Airgain on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Airgain
Airgain, Inc. provides wireless connectivity solutions that creates and delivers embedded components, external antennas, and integrated systems worldwide. The company's products include MaxBeam embedded antennas; profile embedded antennas; profile contour embedded antennas; profile ceramic embedded antenna; ultra embedded antennas; and SmartMax embedded antennas. It offers embedded and NimbeLink embedded moderms; custom cellular solutions; cellular IoT development; cellular IoT development kits; and IoT data plans. In addition, the company provides 5G connectivity, smart repeaters, and fixed wireless access; asset tracking solutions, devices, and partners; and external antennas, fleet antennas, IoT antennas, network antennas, vehicle networking, partner solutions, and accessories. It offers its products under the Antenna Plus brand. It serves industrial, consumer, automotive fleet, enterprise, energy, medical, transportation, agriculture, services, and public safety markets. The company was formerly known as AM Group and changed its name to Airgain, Inc. in 2004. Airgain, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
About F5
F5, Inc. provides multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. The company’s distributed cloud services enable its customers to deploy, secure, and operate applications in any architecture, from on-premises to the public cloud. It offers unified, security, networking, and application management solutions, such as web app and API protection; multi-cloud networking; application delivery and deployment; domain name system; content delivery network; and application deployment and orchestration. The company also provides application security and delivery products, including NGINX Plus; NGINX Management Suite; NGINX Ingress Controller; NGINX App Protect; BIG-IP Packaged Software; and BIG-IP Systems. In addition, it provides a range of professional services, including maintenance, consulting, training, and other technical support services. F5, Inc. sells its products to large enterprise businesses, public sector institutions, governments, and service providers through distributors, value-added resellers, managed service providers, systems integrators, and other indirect channel partners. It has partnerships with public cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The company was formerly known as F5 Networks, Inc. and changed its name to F5, Inc. in November 2021. F5, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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