IRDM vs. LITE, EVH, AEIS, TSEM, SANM, NCNO, CAMT, PI, ACIW, and TDC
Should you be buying Iridium Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Iridium Communications include Lumentum (LITE), Evolent Health (EVH), Advanced Energy Industries (AEIS), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), Sanmina (SANM), nCino (NCNO), Camtek (CAMT), Impinj (PI), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), and Teradata (TDC). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Iridium Communications (NASDAQ:IRDM) and Lumentum (NASDAQ:LITE) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
Lumentum received 407 more outperform votes than Iridium Communications when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.06% of users gave Lumentum an outperform vote while only 58.76% of users gave Iridium Communications an outperform vote.
Iridium Communications has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lumentum. Lumentum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iridium Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Iridium Communications has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lumentum has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
84.4% of Iridium Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.1% of Lumentum shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Iridium Communications shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Lumentum 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.
Iridium Communications has a net margin of 3.20% compared to Lumentum's net margin of -18.52%. Iridium Communications' return on equity of 2.76% beat Lumentum's return on equity.
Iridium Communications currently has a consensus price target of $44.75, indicating a potential upside of 42.83%. Lumentum has a consensus price target of $52.69, indicating a potential upside of 20.41%. Given Iridium Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Iridium Communications is more favorable than Lumentum.
In the previous week, Iridium Communications had 11 more articles in the media than Lumentum. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Iridium Communications and 5 mentions for Lumentum. Lumentum's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Iridium Communications' score of 0.35 indicating that Lumentum is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Iridium Communications beats Lumentum on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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