IVAC vs. KOPN, ERII, NTAP, WDC, SYNA, IMMR, DM, MNTX, ASYS, and SOTK
Should you be buying Intevac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intevac include Kopin (KOPN), Energy Recovery (ERII), NetApp (NTAP), Western Digital (WDC), Synaptics (SYNA), Immersion (IMMR), Desktop Metal (DM), Manitex International (MNTX), Amtech Systems (ASYS), and Sono-Tek (SOTK).
Kopin (NASDAQ:KOPN) and Intevac (NASDAQ:IVAC) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
31.0% of Kopin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.3% of Intevac shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Kopin shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Intevac shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Intevac received 48 more outperform votes than Kopin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.69% of users gave Intevac an outperform vote while only 58.02% of users gave Kopin an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Intevac had 1 more articles in the media than Kopin. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Intevac and 2 mentions for Kopin. Intevac's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Kopin's score of 0.46 indicating that Kopin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kopin has a beta of 2.64, meaning that its share price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intevac has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Kopin currently has a consensus price target of $2.75, indicating a potential upside of 154.63%. Given Intevac's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Kopin is more favorable than Intevac.
Intevac has a net margin of -19.52% compared to Intevac's net margin of -125.20%. Kopin's return on equity of -8.17% beat Intevac's return on equity.
Intevac has higher revenue and earnings than Kopin. Intevac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kopin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Intevac beats Kopin on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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