VICR vs. VREX, MVIS, PI, AEIS, LPL, UDMY, UPWK, SGML, ACMR, and PRFT
Should you be buying Vicor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vicor include Varex Imaging (VREX), MicroVision (MVIS), Impinj (PI), Advanced Energy Industries (AEIS), LG Display (LPL), Udemy (UDMY), Upwork (UPWK), Sigma Lithium (SGML), ACM Research (ACMR), and Perficient (PRFT).
Varex Imaging (NASDAQ:VREX) and Vicor (NASDAQ:VICR) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and earnings.
Varex Imaging currently has a consensus price target of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 62.36%. Vicor has a consensus price target of $55.00, suggesting a potential upside of 73.83%. Given Varex Imaging's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Vicor is more favorable than Varex Imaging.
Vicor has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Varex Imaging. Varex Imaging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vicor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vicor has a net margin of 11.49% compared to Vicor's net margin of 5.08%. Vicor's return on equity of 9.21% beat Varex Imaging's return on equity.
47.5% of Vicor shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of Varex Imaging shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 31.3% of Vicor shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vicor received 5 more outperform votes than Varex Imaging when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave Varex Imaging an outperform vote while only 60.05% of users gave Vicor an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Vicor had 11 more articles in the media than Varex Imaging. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Vicor and 2 mentions for Varex Imaging. Varex Imaging's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Vicor's score of -0.49 indicating that Vicor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Varex Imaging has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vicor has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Vicor beats Varex Imaging on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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