ALTR vs. MPWR, MCHP, FSLR, SWKS, LSCC, MTSI, RMBS, CRUS, SLAB, and POWI
Should you be buying Altair Engineering stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Altair Engineering include Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR), Microchip Technology (MCHP), First Solar (FSLR), Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), MACOM Technology Solutions (MTSI), Rambus (RMBS), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), and Power Integrations (POWI). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors" industry.
Altair Engineering vs.
Monolithic Power Systems (NASDAQ:MPWR) and Altair Engineering (NASDAQ:ALTR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Monolithic Power Systems presently has a consensus target price of $866.17, indicating a potential upside of 41.06%. Altair Engineering has a consensus target price of $100.83, indicating a potential downside of 9.60%. Given Monolithic Power Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Monolithic Power Systems is more favorable than Altair Engineering.
Monolithic Power Systems has higher revenue and earnings than Altair Engineering. Monolithic Power Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Altair Engineering, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Monolithic Power Systems has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Altair Engineering has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Monolithic Power Systems had 35 more articles in the media than Altair Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 61 mentions for Monolithic Power Systems and 26 mentions for Altair Engineering. Altair Engineering's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Monolithic Power Systems' score of 0.44 indicating that Altair Engineering is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
93.5% of Monolithic Power Systems shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.4% of Altair Engineering shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of Monolithic Power Systems shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.8% of Altair Engineering shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Monolithic Power Systems received 174 more outperform votes than Altair Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.43% of users gave Monolithic Power Systems an outperform vote while only 57.99% of users gave Altair Engineering an outperform vote.
Monolithic Power Systems has a net margin of 80.95% compared to Altair Engineering's net margin of 2.13%. Monolithic Power Systems' return on equity of 20.36% beat Altair Engineering's return on equity.
Monolithic Power Systems pays an annual dividend of $6.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Altair Engineering pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Monolithic Power Systems pays out 17.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Altair Engineering pays out 423.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Monolithic Power Systems is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Monolithic Power Systems beats Altair Engineering on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ALTR) was last updated on 3/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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