VIAV vs. PLAB, MXL, AMBA, UCTT, ICHR, DQ, INDI, HIMX, SGH, and IMOS
Should you be buying Viavi Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viavi Solutions include Photronics (PLAB), MaxLinear (MXL), Ambarella (AMBA), Ultra Clean (UCTT), Ichor (ICHR), Daqo New Energy (DQ), indie Semiconductor (INDI), Himax Technologies (HIMX), SMART Global (SGH), and ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES (IMOS). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
Photronics (NASDAQ:PLAB) and Viavi Solutions (NASDAQ:VIAV) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Photronics has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viavi Solutions has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
88.4% of Photronics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Viavi Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of Photronics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Viavi Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Photronics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Viavi Solutions. Viavi Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Photronics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Photronics had 24 more articles in the media than Viavi Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Photronics and 6 mentions for Viavi Solutions. Photronics' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Viavi Solutions' score of 0.45 indicating that Viavi Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Viavi Solutions has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 61.29%. Given Photronics' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Viavi Solutions is more favorable than Photronics.
Photronics has a net margin of 15.14% compared to Photronics' net margin of -0.42%. Viavi Solutions' return on equity of 9.73% beat Photronics' return on equity.
Viavi Solutions received 303 more outperform votes than Photronics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.97% of users gave Viavi Solutions an outperform vote while only 66.48% of users gave Photronics an outperform vote.
Summary
Photronics beats Viavi Solutions on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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