VLN vs. TGAN, QUIK, MX, CAN, AIP, AXTI, NVEC, ATOM, PXLW, and POET
Should you be buying Valens Semiconductor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Valens Semiconductor include Transphorm (TGAN), QuickLogic (QUIK), Magnachip Semiconductor (MX), Canaan (CAN), Arteris (AIP), AXT (AXTI), NVE (NVEC), Atomera (ATOM), Pixelworks (PXLW), and POET Technologies (POET). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
Transphorm (NASDAQ:TGAN) and Valens Semiconductor (NYSE:VLN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Valens Semiconductor has a net margin of -33.86% compared to Valens Semiconductor's net margin of -177.91%. Transphorm's return on equity of -14.04% beat Valens Semiconductor's return on equity.
Transphorm currently has a consensus target price of $5.75, indicating a potential upside of 17.83%. Valens Semiconductor has a consensus target price of $4.67, indicating a potential upside of 89.70%. Given Transphorm's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Valens Semiconductor is more favorable than Transphorm.
Transphorm has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Valens Semiconductor has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Valens Semiconductor had 8 more articles in the media than Transphorm. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Valens Semiconductor and 3 mentions for Transphorm. Valens Semiconductor's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Transphorm's score of -0.10 indicating that Transphorm is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Valens Semiconductor received 7 more outperform votes than Transphorm when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.00% of users gave Transphorm an outperform vote while only 39.13% of users gave Valens Semiconductor an outperform vote.
66.5% of Transphorm shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.9% of Valens Semiconductor shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Transphorm shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 58.9% of Valens Semiconductor 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.
Valens Semiconductor has higher revenue and earnings than Transphorm. Valens Semiconductor is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Transphorm, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Valens Semiconductor beats Transphorm on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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