Reviewing Video Display (OTCMKTS:VIDE) & Vicor (NASDAQ:VICR)

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Vicor and Video Display, as reported by MarketBeat.

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

Vicor currently has a consensus price target of $98.33, indicating a potential downside of 15.85%. Given Vicor’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Vicor is more favorable than Video Display.

Profitability

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

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

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

Risk and Volatility

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

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Vicor and Video Display”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Vicor	$359.06 million	14.53	$6.13 million	$1.83	63.86
Video Display	$8.30 million	0.00	-$130,000.00	($0.13)	0.00

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.

Summary

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

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.

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.