MMAT vs. EMKR, LAES, NA, SQNS, LEDS, WISA, LPTH, GSIT, GCTS, and MOBX
Should you be buying Meta Materials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meta Materials include EMCORE (EMKR), SEALSQ (LAES), Nano Labs (NA), Sequans Communications (SQNS), SemiLEDs (LEDS), WiSA Technologies (WISA), LightPath Technologies (LPTH), GSI Technology (GSIT), GCT Semiconductor (GCTS), and Mobix Labs (MOBX). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
Meta Materials (NASDAQ:MMAT) and EMCORE (NASDAQ:EMKR) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
EMCORE has higher revenue and earnings than Meta Materials. EMCORE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Meta Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
6.5% of Meta Materials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.7% of EMCORE shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Meta Materials shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of EMCORE 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.
EMCORE received 346 more outperform votes than Meta Materials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Meta Materials an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave EMCORE an outperform vote.
EMCORE has a net margin of -68.57% compared to Meta Materials' net margin of -4,999.15%. EMCORE's return on equity of -26.00% beat Meta Materials' return on equity.
EMCORE has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1,400.00%. Given EMCORE's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe EMCORE is more favorable than Meta Materials.
Meta Materials has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EMCORE has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, EMCORE had 13 more articles in the media than Meta Materials. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for EMCORE and 1 mentions for Meta Materials. Meta Materials' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat EMCORE's score of 0.19 indicating that Meta Materials is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
EMCORE beats Meta Materials on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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