Head-To-Head Review: Airborne Wireless Network (OTCMKTS:ABWN) & Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ)

Airborne Wireless Network (OTCMKTS:ABWN) and Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

62.1% of Verizon Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Verizon Communications shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Airborne Wireless Network and Verizon Communications, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Airborne Wireless Network	0	0	0	0	0.00
Verizon Communications	0	11	6	3	2.60

Verizon Communications has a consensus price target of $47.63, suggesting a potential upside of 16.61%. Given Verizon Communications’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Verizon Communications is more favorable than Airborne Wireless Network.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Airborne Wireless Network and Verizon Communications”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Airborne Wireless Network	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Verizon Communications	$137.00 billion	1.26	$17.51 billion	$4.29	9.52

Verizon Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Airborne Wireless Network.

Profitability

This table compares Airborne Wireless Network and Verizon Communications’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Airborne Wireless Network	N/A	N/A	N/A
Verizon Communications	13.28%	19.61%	5.19%

Summary

Verizon Communications beats Airborne Wireless Network on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Airborne Wireless Network

Airborne Wireless Network, a development stage company, focuses on developing, marketing, and licensing a fully-meshed high-speed broadband airborne wireless network by linking aircraft in flight. It focuses on developing Infinitus, a high-speed broadband airborne wireless network that would enable participating aircraft to act as an airborne repeater or router, sending and receiving broadband signals from one aircraft to another. It intends to sell broadband wireless bandwidth to the telecommunications companies and Internet service providers. The company was formerly known as Ample-Tee, Inc. and changed its name to Airborne Wireless Network in May 2016. Airborne Wireless Network was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Simi Valley, California.

About Verizon Communications

Verizon Communications Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of communications, technology, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental entities worldwide. It operates in two segments, Verizon Consumer Group (Consumer) and Verizon Business Group (Business). The Consumer segment provides wireless services across the wireless networks in the United States under the Verizon and TracFone brands and through wholesale and other arrangements; and fixed wireless access (FWA) broadband through its wireless networks, as well as related equipment and devices, such as smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and other wireless-enabled connected devices. The segment also offers wireline services in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, as well as Washington D.C. through its fiber-optic network, Verizon Fios product portfolio, and a copper-based network. The Business segment provides wireless and wireline communications services and products, including FWA broadband, data, video and conferencing, corporate networking, security and managed network, local and long-distance voice, and network access services to deliver various IoT services and products to businesses, government customers, and wireless and wireline carriers in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as Bell Atlantic Corporation and changed its name to Verizon Communications Inc. in June 2000. Verizon Communications Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in New York, New York.