Head-To-Head Review: UTime (NASDAQ:WTO) versus AudioCodes (NASDAQ:AUDC)
by Kim Johansen · The Markets DailyUTime (NASDAQ:WTO – Get Free Report) and AudioCodes (NASDAQ:AUDC – Get Free Report) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
1.1% of UTime shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.0% of AudioCodes shares are held by institutional investors. 54.6% of UTime shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 48.8% of AudioCodes 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.
Profitability
This table compares UTime and AudioCodes’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| UTime | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| AudioCodes | 2.79% | 6.33% | 3.34% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares UTime and AudioCodes”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| UTime | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| AudioCodes | $245.60 million | 0.99 | $8.95 million | $0.25 | 38.32 |
AudioCodes has higher revenue and earnings than UTime.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for UTime and AudioCodes, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| UTime | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| AudioCodes | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
Risk & Volatility
UTime has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AudioCodes has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AudioCodes beats UTime on 7 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
About UTime
UTime Limited, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and operates mobile phones, accessories, and related consumer electronics. The company offers consumer electronics, such as power banks, bluetooth speakers, batteries, chargers, cell phone parts, molds, and shells. It provides electronics manufacturing services, including original equipment manufacturer and original design manufacturer services. It sells its products under the UTime and Do brand names in South America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa. UTime Limited was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China.
About AudioCodes
AudioCodes Ltd. provides advanced communications software, products, and productivity solutions for the digital workplace worldwide. The company offers solutions, products, and services for unified communications, contact centers, hosted business services, Voice.AI, and service provider businesses. Its products include session border controllers, life cycle management solutions, VoIP network routing solutions, media gateways and servers, multi-service business routers, IP phones solutions, and value-added applications, as well as professional services. The company also offers One Voice Operations Center, a voice network management solution; Device Manager for administering business phones and meeting room solutions; AudioCodes Routing Manager for handling call routing in VoIP networks; and User Management Pack 365 simplifies user lifecycle and identity management across Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business deployments. In addition, it provides AudioCodes Live for Microsoft Teams, a portfolio of managed services for simplifying Teams adoption; appliances for Microsoft Skype/Teams for Business, such as survivable branch appliances, CCE, and CloudBond 365; and a range of value-added voice applications comprising SmartTAP, Voca, VoiceAI Connect, and Meeting Insights. Further, the company offers managed services; and AudioCodes Live Platform is a SaaS solution that enables service providers to offer their business customers a seamless migration to uCaaS solutions, such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom Phone. It primarily markets and sells its products through a direct sales force and sales representatives to original equipment manufacturers, network equipment providers, and systems integrators, enterprises, carriers, and distributors in the telecommunications and networking industries. AudioCodes Ltd. was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Lod, Israel.