SLAB vs. SYNA, MXL, IDT, CY, SWKS, LSCC, ALTR, MTSI, CRUS, and RMBS
Should you be buying Silicon Laboratories stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silicon Laboratories include Synaptics (SYNA), MaxLinear (MXL), IDT (IDT), Cypress Semiconductor (CY), Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), Altair Engineering (ALTR), MACOM Technology Solutions (MTSI), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), and Rambus (RMBS).
Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ:SLAB) and Synaptics (NASDAQ:SYNA) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Synaptics had 1 more articles in the media than Silicon Laboratories. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Synaptics and 6 mentions for Silicon Laboratories. Silicon Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Synaptics' score of 1.18 indicating that Silicon Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Silicon Laboratories presently has a consensus target price of $135.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.79%. Synaptics has a consensus target price of $117.67, suggesting a potential upside of 25.60%. Given Synaptics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Synaptics is more favorable than Silicon Laboratories.
Synaptics received 102 more outperform votes than Silicon Laboratories when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.42% of users gave Silicon Laboratories an outperform vote while only 63.24% of users gave Synaptics an outperform vote.
Synaptics has higher revenue and earnings than Silicon Laboratories. Silicon Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Synaptics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Synaptics has a net margin of -11.30% compared to Silicon Laboratories' net margin of -16.36%. Synaptics' return on equity of -0.90% beat Silicon Laboratories' return on equity.
Silicon Laboratories has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Synaptics has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
99.4% of Synaptics shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Silicon Laboratories shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Synaptics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Synaptics beats Silicon Laboratories on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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