AEIS vs. PI, VICR, VREX, MVIS, AMKR, ONTO, MKSI, FORM, ACLS, and VECO
Should you be buying Advanced Energy Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advanced Energy Industries include Impinj (PI), Vicor (VICR), Varex Imaging (VREX), MicroVision (MVIS), Amkor Technology (AMKR), Onto Innovation (ONTO), MKS Instruments (MKSI), FormFactor (FORM), Axcelis Technologies (ACLS), and Veeco Instruments (VECO).
Impinj (NASDAQ:PI) and Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ:AEIS) 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 risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Advanced Energy Industries has a net margin of 6.58% compared to Advanced Energy Industries' net margin of 3.93%. Impinj's return on equity of 11.65% beat Advanced Energy Industries' return on equity.
In the previous week, Impinj had 39 more articles in the media than Advanced Energy Industries. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Impinj and 5 mentions for Advanced Energy Industries. Impinj's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Advanced Energy Industries' score of 0.65 indicating that Advanced Energy Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Impinj has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advanced Energy Industries has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Impinj presently has a consensus price target of $187.10, suggesting a potential upside of 16.89%. Advanced Energy Industries has a consensus price target of $105.33, suggesting a potential downside of 4.25%. Given Advanced Energy Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Impinj is more favorable than Advanced Energy Industries.
Advanced Energy Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Impinj. Impinj is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advanced Energy Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.7% of Advanced Energy Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.0% of Impinj shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Advanced Energy Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Advanced Energy Industries received 19 more outperform votes than Impinj when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.56% of users gave Impinj an outperform vote while only 64.55% of users gave Advanced Energy Industries an outperform vote.
Summary
Advanced Energy Industries beats Impinj on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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