AXTI vs. MX, SOL, EBON, IOTS, XPER, RBCN, DSPG, AMAT, LRCX, and KLAC
Should you be buying AXT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AXT include Magnachip Semiconductor (MX), Emeren Group (SOL), Ebang International (EBON), Adesto Technologies (IOTS), Xperi (XPER), Rubicon Technology (RBCN), DSP Group (DSPG), Applied Materials (AMAT), Lam Research (LRCX), and KLA (KLAC).
AXT (NASDAQ:AXTI) and Magnachip Semiconductor (NYSE:MX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
Magnachip Semiconductor has a net margin of -13.76% compared to AXT's net margin of -21.01%. AXT's return on equity of -7.40% beat Magnachip Semiconductor's return on equity.
AXT presently has a consensus target price of $5.38, indicating a potential upside of 55.35%. Magnachip Semiconductor has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 61.62%. Given Magnachip Semiconductor's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Magnachip Semiconductor is more favorable than AXT.
49.5% of AXT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.3% of Magnachip Semiconductor shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.4% of AXT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Magnachip Semiconductor shares are owned by 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.
AXT has a beta of 2.28, meaning that its share price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Magnachip Semiconductor has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AXT received 110 more outperform votes than Magnachip Semiconductor when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.53% of users gave AXT an outperform vote while only 57.09% of users gave Magnachip Semiconductor an outperform vote.
AXT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Magnachip Semiconductor. AXT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Magnachip Semiconductor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AXT had 13 more articles in the media than Magnachip Semiconductor. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for AXT and 1 mentions for Magnachip Semiconductor. Magnachip Semiconductor's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat AXT's score of 0.18 indicating that Magnachip Semiconductor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AXT beats Magnachip Semiconductor on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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