Turtle Beach (NASDAQ:TBCH – Get Free Report) and Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE:DBD – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Volatility & Risk
Turtle Beach has a beta of 2.36, meaning that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diebold Nixdorf has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Turtle Beach and Diebold Nixdorf”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Turtle Beach | $319.91 million | 0.78 | $15.73 million | ($0.21) | -66.62 |
| Diebold Nixdorf | $3.87 billion | 0.56 | $94.60 million | $3.06 | 20.78 |
Diebold Nixdorf has higher revenue and earnings than Turtle Beach. Turtle Beach is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diebold Nixdorf, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Turtle Beach and Diebold Nixdorf’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Turtle Beach | -1.07% | -2.26% | -1.00% |
| Diebold Nixdorf | 2.87% | 21.16% | 5.90% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Turtle Beach and Diebold Nixdorf, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Turtle Beach | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2.29 |
| Diebold Nixdorf | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3.33 |
Turtle Beach presently has a consensus target price of $16.80, suggesting a potential upside of 20.09%. Diebold Nixdorf has a consensus target price of $100.00, suggesting a potential upside of 57.27%. Given Diebold Nixdorf’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Diebold Nixdorf is more favorable than Turtle Beach.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
67.0% of Turtle Beach shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Diebold Nixdorf shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of Turtle Beach shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Diebold Nixdorf shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Diebold Nixdorf beats Turtle Beach on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Turtle Beach
Turtle Beach Corporation operates as an audio technology company. It develops, commercializes, and markets gaming headset solutions for various platforms, including video game and entertainment consoles, personal computers, handheld consoles, tablets, and mobile devices under the Turtle Beach brand. The company also offers gaming headsets, keyboards, mice, mousepads, and other accessories for the personal computer peripherals market under the brand of ROCCAT, as well as digital USB and analog microphones under the Neat Microphones brand. It serves retailers, distributors, and other customers in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, and internationally. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in White Plains, New York.
About Diebold Nixdorf
Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated engages in the automating, digitizing, and transforming the way people bank and shop worldwide. It operates through two segments, Banking and Retail. The company offers cash recyclers and dispensers, intelligent deposit terminals, teller automation tools, and kiosk technologies, as well as physical security solutions; and front-end applications for consumer connection points and back-end platforms that manage channel transactions, operations and integration, and facilitate omnichannel transactions, endpoint monitoring, remote asset management, customer marketing, merchandise management, and analytics. It also provides banking product-related services comprising proactive monitoring and rapid resolution of incidents through remote service capabilities or an on-site visit; first- and second-line maintenance, preventive maintenance, and on-demand services; managed and outsourcing services, such as business processes, solution management, upgrades, and transaction processing; and cash management services. In addition, the company offers DN Vynamic software suite to simplify and enhance the consumer experience; modular and integrated point of sale and self-checkout terminals; printers, scales, and mobile scanners; and banknote and coin processing systems, as well as ordering kiosks. Additionally, it provides retail customer's product-related services, such as on-demand and professional services; maintenance and availability services; implementation services; managed mobility services; monitoring and advanced analytics; and store life-cycle management services. The company was formerly known as Diebold, Incorporated and changed its name to Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated in December 2016. Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in North Canton, Ohio.
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