Head to Head Review: Microwave Filter (MFCO) vs. The Competition

Insider & 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 insiders. Comparatively, 14.8% of shares of all “ELEC – MISC COMPONENTS” companies are owned 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.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Microwave Filter and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Microwave Filter	N/A	N/A	-2.93
Microwave Filter Competitors	$2.50 billion	$168.84 million	13.62

Microwave Filter’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Microwave Filter. Microwave Filter is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk and Volatility

Microwave Filter has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Microwave Filter’s peers have a beta of 0.85, meaning that their average share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Microwave Filter and its peers’ 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	3.38%	-10.11%	1.78%

Summary

Microwave Filter peers 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.