JKS vs. POWI, FORM, CRDO, TSEM, IPGP, SLAB, SYNA, WOLF, DIOD, and SITM
Should you be buying JinkoSolar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JinkoSolar include Power Integrations (POWI), FormFactor (FORM), Credo Technology Group (CRDO), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), IPG Photonics (IPGP), Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), Synaptics (SYNA), Wolfspeed (WOLF), Diodes (DIOD), and SiTime (SITM). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
Power Integrations (NASDAQ:POWI) and JinkoSolar (NYSE:JKS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Power Integrations presently has a consensus target price of $87.40, indicating a potential upside of 17.21%. JinkoSolar has a consensus target price of $26.60, indicating a potential upside of 5.26%. Given JinkoSolar's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Power Integrations is more favorable than JinkoSolar.
Power Integrations has a net margin of 12.28% compared to Power Integrations' net margin of 2.74%. Power Integrations' return on equity of 11.12% beat JinkoSolar's return on equity.
35.8% of JinkoSolar shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Power Integrations shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of JinkoSolar shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Power Integrations pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. JinkoSolar pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Power Integrations pays out 87.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. JinkoSolar pays out 23.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Power Integrations has raised its dividend for 11 consecutive years. JinkoSolar is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Power Integrations received 144 more outperform votes than JinkoSolar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.14% of users gave Power Integrations an outperform vote while only 55.80% of users gave JinkoSolar an outperform vote.
JinkoSolar has higher revenue and earnings than Power Integrations. JinkoSolar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Power Integrations, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Power Integrations had 1 more articles in the media than JinkoSolar. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Power Integrations and 6 mentions for JinkoSolar. JinkoSolar's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Power Integrations' score of 0.62 indicating that Power Integrations is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Power Integrations has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JinkoSolar has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Power Integrations beats JinkoSolar on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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