SMTC vs. AMBA, DIOD, MXL, SLAB, POWI, AOSL, CRUS, RMBS, MTSI, and LSCC
Should you be buying Semtech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Semtech include Ambarella (AMBA), Diodes (DIOD), MaxLinear (MXL), Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), Power Integrations (POWI), Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOSL), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), Rambus (RMBS), MACOM Technology Solutions (MTSI), and Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors" industry.
Ambarella (NASDAQ:AMBA) and Semtech (NASDAQ:SMTC) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and community ranking.
82.1% of Ambarella shares are held by institutional investors. 5.7% of Ambarella shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Semtech shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ambarella has a net margin of -74.81% compared to Ambarella's net margin of -125.70%. Ambarella's return on equity of -9.41% beat Semtech's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ambarella had 1 more articles in the media than Semtech. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Ambarella and 6 mentions for Semtech. Ambarella's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Semtech's score of 0.74 indicating that Semtech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ambarella has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Semtech. Ambarella is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Semtech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ambarella has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Semtech has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ambarella received 137 more outperform votes than Semtech when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.77% of users gave Semtech an outperform vote while only 67.89% of users gave Ambarella an outperform vote.
Ambarella presently has a consensus target price of $71.08, indicating a potential upside of 41.32%. Semtech has a consensus target price of $40.35, indicating a potential downside of 1.27%. Given Semtech's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Ambarella is more favorable than Semtech.
Summary
Ambarella and Semtech tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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