CLS vs. SANM, PLXS, TTMI, CTS, FLEX, JBL, RMBS, CRUS, G, and BILI
Should you be buying Celestica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Celestica include Sanmina (SANM), Plexus (PLXS), TTM Technologies (TTMI), CTS (CTS), Flex (FLEX), Jabil (JBL), Rambus (RMBS), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), Genpact (G), and Bilibili (BILI). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Sanmina (NASDAQ:SANM) and Celestica (NYSE:CLS) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Sanmina presently has a consensus target price of $62.33, indicating a potential downside of 7.80%. Celestica has a consensus target price of $45.56, indicating a potential downside of 23.22%. Given Celestica's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Sanmina is more favorable than Celestica.
Sanmina has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Celestica has a beta of 2.25, meaning that its share price is 125% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Celestica has a net margin of 3.86% compared to Celestica's net margin of 3.11%. Sanmina's return on equity of 18.25% beat Celestica's return on equity.
92.7% of Sanmina shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.4% of Celestica shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Sanmina shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Celestica shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sanmina received 96 more outperform votes than Celestica when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.27% of users gave Sanmina an outperform vote while only 55.57% of users gave Celestica an outperform vote.
Sanmina has higher revenue and earnings than Celestica. Sanmina is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Celestica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Celestica had 11 more articles in the media than Sanmina. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Celestica and 5 mentions for Sanmina. Celestica's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Sanmina's score of 0.67 indicating that Sanmina is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Sanmina beats Celestica on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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