SLAB vs. POWI, CRUS, SMTC, RMBS, MXL, AMBA, IDT, MTSI, LSCC, and SWKS
Should you be buying Silicon Laboratories stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silicon Laboratories include Power Integrations (POWI), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), Semtech (SMTC), Rambus (RMBS), MaxLinear (MXL), Ambarella (AMBA), IDT (IDT), MACOM Technology Solutions (MTSI), Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), and Skyworks Solutions (SWKS).
Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ:SLAB) and Power Integrations (NASDAQ:POWI) 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 analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Silicon Laboratories presently has a consensus price target of $135.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.12%. Power Integrations has a consensus price target of $86.17, suggesting a potential upside of 29.15%. Given Power Integrations' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Power Integrations is more favorable than Silicon Laboratories.
Silicon Laboratories received 274 more outperform votes than Power Integrations when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.55% of users gave Silicon Laboratories an outperform vote while only 63.09% of users gave Power Integrations an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Silicon Laboratories had 43 more articles in the media than Power Integrations. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Silicon Laboratories and 1 mentions for Power Integrations. Power Integrations' average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Silicon Laboratories' score of 0.17 indicating that Power Integrations is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Power Integrations has a net margin of 12.54% compared to Silicon Laboratories' net margin of -16.36%. Power Integrations' return on equity of 6.46% beat Silicon Laboratories' return on equity.
Power Integrations has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Silicon Laboratories. Silicon Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Power Integrations, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Silicon Laboratories has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Power Integrations has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Power Integrations beats Silicon Laboratories on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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