AXTI vs. SOL, MX, EBON, XPER, RBCN, IOTS, DSPG, AMAT, LRCX, and KLAC
Should you be buying AXT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AXT include Emeren Group (SOL), Magnachip Semiconductor (MX), Ebang International (EBON), Xperi (XPER), Rubicon Technology (RBCN), Adesto Technologies (IOTS), DSP Group (DSPG), Applied Materials (AMAT), Lam Research (LRCX), and KLA (KLAC).
Emeren Group (NYSE:SOL) and AXT (NASDAQ:AXTI) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
44.1% of Emeren Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.5% of AXT shares are held by institutional investors. 18.0% of Emeren Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of AXT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AXT has a net margin of -14.75% compared to Emeren Group's net margin of -20.91%. Emeren Group's return on equity of -3.15% beat AXT's return on equity.
Emeren Group presently has a consensus target price of $4.88, indicating a potential upside of 117.15%. AXT has a consensus target price of $5.38, indicating a potential upside of 128.72%. Given AXT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AXT is more favorable than Emeren Group.
Emeren Group has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AXT has a beta of 2.23, indicating that its stock price is 123% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AXT received 245 more outperform votes than Emeren Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.08% of users gave AXT an outperform vote while only 45.79% of users gave Emeren Group an outperform vote.
Emeren Group has higher revenue and earnings than AXT. Emeren Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AXT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Emeren Group had 1 more articles in the media than AXT. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Emeren Group and 2 mentions for AXT. AXT's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Emeren Group's score of 0.95 indicating that AXT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AXT beats Emeren Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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