IHS vs. LITE, IRDM, ARLO, ENFN, MGNI, DBD, HLIT, BASE, GENI, and PDFS
Should you be buying (IHS) stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of (IHS) include Lumentum (LITE), Iridium Communications (IRDM), Arlo Technologies (ARLO), Enfusion (ENFN), Magnite (MGNI), Diebold Nixdorf (DBD), Harmonic (HLIT), Couchbase (BASE), Genius Sports (GENI), and PDF Solutions (PDFS). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Lumentum (NASDAQ:LITE) and (IHS) (NYSE:IHS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Lumentum has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, (IHS) has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.1% of Lumentum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.5% of (IHS) shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Lumentum shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, (IHS) had 1 more articles in the media than Lumentum. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for (IHS) and 8 mentions for Lumentum. (IHS)'s average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Lumentum's score of 0.00 indicating that Lumentum is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lumentum received 562 more outperform votes than (IHS) when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.06% of users gave Lumentum an outperform vote while only 60.07% of users gave (IHS) an outperform vote.
Lumentum has a net margin of -18.52% compared to Lumentum's net margin of -91.89%. (IHS)'s return on equity of 1.04% beat Lumentum's return on equity.
Lumentum presently has a consensus price target of $52.69, indicating a potential upside of 18.46%. (IHS) has a consensus price target of $10.80, indicating a potential upside of 184.21%. Given Lumentum's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe (IHS) is more favorable than Lumentum.
Lumentum has higher earnings, but lower revenue than (IHS). Lumentum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than (IHS), indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lumentum beats (IHS) on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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