Reviewing Media 100 (OTCMKTS:MDEA) and RADCOM (NASDAQ:RDCM)

Media 100 (OTCMKTS:MDEA) and RADCOM (NASDAQ:RDCM) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Media 100 and RADCOM’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Media 100	N/A	N/A	N/A
RADCOM	7.18%	5.36%	4.07%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

48.3% of RADCOM shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of Media 100 shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 69.0% of RADCOM shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Media 100 and RADCOM’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Media 100	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
RADCOM	$51.60 million	2.80	$3.71 million	$0.25	37.40

RADCOM has higher revenue and earnings than Media 100.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Media 100 and RADCOM, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Media 100	0	0	0	0	N/A
RADCOM	0	0	1	0	3.00

RADCOM has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 49.73%.

Volatility and Risk

Media 100 has a beta of -1.37, meaning that its share price is 237% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RADCOM has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

RADCOM beats Media 100 on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Media 100

Media 100 Inc. designs, develops, and sells media systems for content design. Its product lines consist of 844/X, a system for content design; Media 100 i, a family of dual-stream video editing systems that uses Macintosh; and iFinish, a family of dual-stream video editing systems that uses Windows. The company's products are personal computer-based workstations configured with proprietary software and hardware for performing video, audio, graphics, and metadata processing functions in real time. The company also offers technical support, software upgrades, and maintenance contracts. The company sells its products worldwide through direct sales force, value-added resellers, and distributors to broadcast designers, visual effects artists, and video editors of professional television and post-production establishments. Media 100 Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

About RADCOM

RADCOM Ltd. provides 5G ready cloud-native, network intelligence, and service assurance solutions for telecom operators or communication service providers (CSPs). It offers RADCOM ACE, including RADCOM Service Assurance, a cloud-native, 5G-ready, and virtualized service assurance solutions, which allows telecom operators to gain end-to-end network visibility and customer experience insights across all networks; RADCOM Network Visibility, a cloud-native network packet broker and filtering solution that allows CSPs to manage network traffic at scale across multiple cloud environments, and control the visibility layer to perform analysis of select datasets; and RADCOM Network Insights, a business intelligence solution that offers insights for multiple use cases enabled by data captured and correlated through RADCOM Network Visibility and RADCOM Service Assurance. The company also provides solutions for mobile and fixed networks, such as 5G, long term evolution (LTE), voice over LTE, voice over Wifi, IP multimedia subsystem, voice over IP, and universal mobile telecommunication service. It sells its products directly to customers through executives and sales representatives, as well as through a network of distributors and resellers in North America, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Israel. The company was formerly known as Big Blue Catalogue Ltd. and changed its name to RADCOM Ltd. in 1989. RADCOM Ltd. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.