SYNA vs. FORM, TSEM, POWI, WOLF, IPGP, KLIC, SLAB, OSIS, SIMO, and SMTC
Should you be buying Synaptics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Synaptics include FormFactor (FORM), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), Power Integrations (POWI), Wolfspeed (WOLF), IPG Photonics (IPGP), Kulicke and Soffa Industries (KLIC), Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), OSI Systems (OSIS), Silicon Motion Technology (SIMO), and Semtech (SMTC). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
Synaptics (NASDAQ:SYNA) and FormFactor (NASDAQ:FORM) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Synaptics has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FormFactor has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, FormFactor had 23 more articles in the media than Synaptics. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for FormFactor and 3 mentions for Synaptics. Synaptics' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat FormFactor's score of -0.13 indicating that Synaptics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Synaptics presently has a consensus target price of $118.40, suggesting a potential upside of 32.10%. FormFactor has a consensus target price of $47.44, suggesting a potential downside of 8.32%. Given Synaptics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Synaptics is more favorable than FormFactor.
Synaptics received 327 more outperform votes than FormFactor when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.00% of users gave FormFactor an outperform vote while only 63.20% of users gave Synaptics an outperform vote.
99.4% of Synaptics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of FormFactor shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Synaptics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of FormFactor shares are owned 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.
FormFactor has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Synaptics. Synaptics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FormFactor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FormFactor has a net margin of 12.42% compared to Synaptics' net margin of -7.54%. Synaptics' return on equity of 3.01% beat FormFactor's return on equity.
Summary
Synaptics beats FormFactor on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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