AVGO vs. TXN, INTC, STM, NVDA, TSM, AMD, AMAT, ASML, ORCL, and CRM
Should you be buying Broadcom stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Broadcom include Texas Instruments (TXN), Intel (INTC), STMicroelectronics (STM), NVIDIA (NVDA), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Applied Materials (AMAT), ASML (ASML), Oracle (ORCL), and Salesforce (CRM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN) and Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
85.0% of Texas Instruments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.4% of Broadcom shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Texas Instruments shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Broadcom shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Texas Instruments had 68 more articles in the media than Broadcom. MarketBeat recorded 95 mentions for Texas Instruments and 27 mentions for Broadcom. Broadcom's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Texas Instruments' score of 0.46 indicating that Texas Instruments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Texas Instruments has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Broadcom has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Broadcom received 1027 more outperform votes than Texas Instruments when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.62% of users gave Broadcom an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave Texas Instruments an outperform vote.
Broadcom has higher revenue and earnings than Texas Instruments. Texas Instruments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Broadcom, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Texas Instruments currently has a consensus target price of $180.74, indicating a potential upside of 1.80%. Broadcom has a consensus target price of $1,285.41, indicating a potential downside of 3.54%. Given Broadcom's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Texas Instruments is more favorable than Broadcom.
Texas Instruments has a net margin of 35.16% compared to Texas Instruments' net margin of 29.93%. Texas Instruments' return on equity of 47.71% beat Broadcom's return on equity.
Texas Instruments pays an annual dividend of $5.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Broadcom pays an annual dividend of $21.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Texas Instruments pays out 81.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Broadcom pays out 77.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Texas Instruments has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years and Broadcom has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Texas Instruments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Broadcom beats Texas Instruments on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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