Contrasting Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) & Baylin Technologies (OTCMKTS:BYLTF)

Baylin Technologies (OTCMKTS:BYLTF) and Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares Baylin Technologies and Harmonic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Baylin Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Harmonic	-7.50%	7.84%	4.30%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

99.4% of Harmonic shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Harmonic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Baylin Technologies and Harmonic, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Baylin Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
Harmonic	1	3	2	0	2.17

Harmonic has a consensus price target of $16.60, suggesting a potential upside of 40.20%. Given Harmonic’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Harmonic is more favorable than Baylin Technologies.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Baylin Technologies and Harmonic”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Baylin Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Harmonic	$570.80 million	2.25	-$43.31 million	($0.37)	-32.00

Baylin Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Harmonic.

Summary

Harmonic beats Baylin Technologies on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Baylin Technologies

Baylin Technologies Inc., together with its subsidiaries, researches, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells passive and active radio frequency (RF) products, satellite communications products, and supporting services. It offers embedded antennas for use in smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices; device-specific antennas for Wi-Fi routers; gateway devices for smart home connectivity, set-top boxes, and land mobile radio products. The company provides RF components, including GaN-based power amplifiers, gallium arsenide-based power amplifiers, indoor and outdoor frequency converters, and transceivers; and antenna controllers for customers in the broadcast, maritime and cruise ships, government and military, homeland security, direct-to-home satellite, oil and gas, and wireless communications verticals. In addition, it provides RF and microwave solid state power amplifiers; and pulsed amplifiers for radar applications, and transmitter and transceiver products, as well as RF passive components and systems. The company offers its products under the Galtronics, and Advantech Wireless brands. Baylin Technologies Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

About Harmonic

Harmonic Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides broadband solutions worldwide. The company operates through Broadband and Video segments. The Broadband segment sells broadband access solutions and related services, including cOS software-based broadband access solutions to broadband operators; and cOS central cloud services, a subscription service for cOS customers. The Video segment sells video processing, production, and playout solutions and services to cable operators, and satellite and telco Pay-TV service providers, as well as to broadcast and media, including streaming media companies. Its video processing appliance solutions include network management and application software, and hardware products, such as encoders, video servers, high-density stream processing systems, and edge processors. This segment also provides VOS360 SaaS platform that provides both streaming and channel origination and distribution services; and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, which enables the packaging and delivery of streaming services, including live streaming, VOD, catch-up TV, start-over TV, network-DVR and cloud-DVR services through HTTP streaming to various device along with dynamic and personal ad insertion. The company also provides technical support and professional services, such as maintenance and support, consulting, implementation, integration services, program management, technical design and planning, building and site preparation, integration and equipment installation, end-to-end system testing, and training, as well as SaaS-related support and deployment. It sells its products through its direct sales force, as well as through independent resellers and systems integrators. The company was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.