CEVA vs. LASR, CAN, EBON, SGH, HIMX, MXL, AOSL, SPWR, NVEC, and QUIK
Should you be buying CEVA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CEVA include nLIGHT (LASR), Canaan (CAN), Ebang International (EBON), SMART Global (SGH), Himax Technologies (HIMX), MaxLinear (MXL), Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOSL), SunPower (SPWR), NVE (NVEC), and QuickLogic (QUIK).
nLIGHT (NASDAQ:LASR) and CEVA (NASDAQ:CEVA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
CEVA has a net margin of -12.91% compared to CEVA's net margin of -23.81%. nLIGHT's return on equity of -5.70% beat CEVA's return on equity.
nLIGHT has a beta of 2.38, meaning that its stock price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CEVA has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
83.9% of nLIGHT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.4% of CEVA shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of nLIGHT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of CEVA shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
CEVA received 424 more outperform votes than nLIGHT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.00% of users gave CEVA an outperform vote while only 63.04% of users gave nLIGHT an outperform vote.
nLIGHT presently has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.00%. CEVA has a consensus price target of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.73%. Given nLIGHT's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CEVA is more favorable than nLIGHT.
CEVA has lower revenue, but higher earnings than nLIGHT. CEVA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than nLIGHT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, nLIGHT had 4 more articles in the media than CEVA. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for nLIGHT and 1 mentions for CEVA. nLIGHT's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat CEVA's score of 0.89 indicating that CEVA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
CEVA beats nLIGHT on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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