Vicor (NASDAQ:VICR) and Video Display (OTCMKTS:VIDE) Critical Survey

Video Display (OTCMKTS:VIDE) and Vicor (NASDAQ:VICR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Video Display and Vicor”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Video Display	$8.30 million	0.00	-$130,000.00	($0.13)	0.00
Vicor	$359.06 million	16.93	$6.13 million	$1.83	74.38

Vicor has higher revenue and earnings than Video Display. Video Display is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vicor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Video Display and Vicor, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Video Display	0	0	0	0	0.00
Vicor	0	2	2	1	2.80

Vicor has a consensus target price of $98.33, indicating a potential downside of 27.75%. Given Vicor’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Vicor is more favorable than Video Display.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

47.5% of Vicor shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.8% of Video Display shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.3% of Vicor shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Video Display and Vicor’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Video Display	N/A	N/A	N/A
Vicor	18.63%	13.77%	12.14%

Volatility and Risk

Video Display has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vicor has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Vicor beats Video Display on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Video Display

Video Display Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, distributes, and installs display products and systems for government, military, aerospace, medical, and commercial organizations worldwide. The company operates in four divisions: Simulation and Training Products; Cyber Secure Products; Data Display CRTs; and Other Computer Products. It offers dome and multi-faceted aircraft simulator display systems, video walls for broadcast and control centers, rugged video walls for combat information centers, rugged flat panel displays and computers, projector and monitor upgrades, and projection screens. The company also provides cyber security products, such as TEMPEST technology products and custom engineering solutions; and various contract services, including the design and testing solutions for defense and niche commercial uses. In addition, it manufactures and distributes cathode ray tubes (CRTs) for use in data display screens, such as computer terminal monitors, medical monitoring equipment, and various other data display applications, as well as in television sets; and distributes CRTs and other electronic tubes purchased from original equipment manufacturers, as well as offers cyber-secure keyboards. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Cocoa, Florida.

About Vicor

Vicor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets modular power components and power systems for converting electrical power in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company offers a range of brick-format DC-DC converters; complementary components provide AC line rectification, input filtering, power factor correction, and transient protection; and input and output voltage, and output power products, as well as electrical and mechanical accessories. It also design, sells, and service custom power systems solutions. The company serves independent manufacturers of electronic devices, original equipment manufacturers, and their contract manufacturers in the aerospace and aviation, defense electronics, satellites, factory automation, instrumentation, test equipment, transportation, telecommunications and networking infrastructure and vehicles, and transportation markets. Vicor Corporation was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.