PLAB vs. UCTT, CEVA, CAN, MX, AXTI, EBON, FORM, AMBA, MXL, and VIAV
Should you be buying Photronics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Photronics include Ultra Clean (UCTT), CEVA (CEVA), Canaan (CAN), Magnachip Semiconductor (MX), AXT (AXTI), Ebang International (EBON), FormFactor (FORM), Ambarella (AMBA), MaxLinear (MXL), and Viavi Solutions (VIAV).
Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT) and Photronics (NASDAQ:PLAB) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
96.1% of Ultra Clean shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.4% of Photronics shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Ultra Clean shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Photronics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ultra Clean presently has a consensus target price of $57.00, suggesting a potential upside of 29.52%. Photronics has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential downside of 28.52%. Given Photronics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Ultra Clean is more favorable than Photronics.
Ultra Clean has a beta of 2.02, indicating that its stock price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Photronics has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ultra Clean had 15 more articles in the media than Photronics. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Ultra Clean and 3 mentions for Photronics. Photronics' average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Ultra Clean's score of 0.57 indicating that Ultra Clean is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Photronics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ultra Clean. Ultra Clean is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Photronics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Photronics has a net margin of 15.34% compared to Photronics' net margin of -1.79%. Ultra Clean's return on equity of 10.37% beat Photronics' return on equity.
Ultra Clean received 131 more outperform votes than Photronics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.59% of users gave Ultra Clean an outperform vote while only 66.48% of users gave Photronics an outperform vote.
Summary
Ultra Clean beats Photronics on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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