TSEM vs. SYNA, POWI, FORM, IPGP, SLAB, WOLF, KLIC, OSIS, CRUS, and SIMO
Should you be buying Tower Semiconductor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tower Semiconductor include Synaptics (SYNA), Power Integrations (POWI), FormFactor (FORM), IPG Photonics (IPGP), Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), Wolfspeed (WOLF), Kulicke and Soffa Industries (KLIC), OSI Systems (OSIS), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), and Silicon Motion Technology (SIMO). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
Synaptics (NASDAQ:SYNA) and Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ:TSEM) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Synaptics currently has a consensus price target of $118.40, indicating a potential upside of 32.10%. Tower Semiconductor has a consensus price target of $36.33, indicating a potential upside of 9.44%. Given Tower Semiconductor's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Synaptics is more favorable than Tower Semiconductor.
Tower Semiconductor has a net margin of 36.44% compared to Tower Semiconductor's net margin of -7.54%. Synaptics' return on equity of 9.33% beat Tower Semiconductor's return on equity.
Synaptics received 394 more outperform votes than Tower Semiconductor when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.44% of users gave Tower Semiconductor an outperform vote while only 63.20% of users gave Synaptics an outperform vote.
Tower Semiconductor has higher revenue and earnings than Synaptics. Synaptics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tower Semiconductor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Synaptics has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tower Semiconductor has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Tower Semiconductor had 3 more articles in the media than Synaptics. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Tower Semiconductor and 2 mentions for Synaptics. Tower Semiconductor's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Synaptics' score of 0.39 indicating that Synaptics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.4% of Synaptics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.5% of Tower Semiconductor shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Synaptics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Tower Semiconductor 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.
Summary
Synaptics and Tower Semiconductor tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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