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$29.10 -0.20 (-0.68%)
Closing price 04/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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KLIC vs. NXT, OLED, QRVO, ALGM, TSEM, LITE, SITM, LPL, VIAV, and PI

Should you be buying Kulicke and Soffa Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kulicke and Soffa Industries include Nextracker (NXT), Universal Display (OLED), Qorvo (QRVO), Allegro MicroSystems (ALGM), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), Lumentum (LITE), SiTime (SITM), LG Display (LPL), Viavi Solutions (VIAV), and Impinj (PI). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.

Kulicke and Soffa Industries vs.

Nextracker (NASDAQ:NXT) and Kulicke and Soffa Industries (NASDAQ:KLIC) are both energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and profitability.

Nextracker presently has a consensus target price of $55.48, suggesting a potential upside of 37.66%. Kulicke and Soffa Industries has a consensus target price of $52.00, suggesting a potential upside of 78.69%. Given Kulicke and Soffa Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kulicke and Soffa Industries is more favorable than Nextracker.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nextracker
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.96
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.60

Nextracker has a beta of 2.02, meaning that its stock price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kulicke and Soffa Industries has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Nextracker has higher revenue and earnings than Kulicke and Soffa Industries. Nextracker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kulicke and Soffa Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nextracker$2.77B2.12$306.24M$3.9310.25
Kulicke and Soffa Industries$701.17M2.22-$69.01M$0.12242.50

Nextracker has a net margin of 20.12% compared to Kulicke and Soffa Industries' net margin of 0.48%. Nextracker's return on equity of 41.22% beat Kulicke and Soffa Industries' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nextracker20.12% 41.22% 18.29%
Kulicke and Soffa Industries 0.48%-1.26%-0.98%

Kulicke and Soffa Industries received 371 more outperform votes than Nextracker when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.68% of users gave Nextracker an outperform vote while only 68.01% of users gave Kulicke and Soffa Industries an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
NextrackerOutperform Votes
84
73.68%
Underperform Votes
30
26.32%
Kulicke and Soffa IndustriesOutperform Votes
455
68.01%
Underperform Votes
214
31.99%

In the previous week, Nextracker had 7 more articles in the media than Kulicke and Soffa Industries. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Nextracker and 6 mentions for Kulicke and Soffa Industries. Kulicke and Soffa Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Nextracker's score of 0.68 indicating that Kulicke and Soffa Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Nextracker
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

67.4% of Nextracker shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Kulicke and Soffa Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Nextracker shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Kulicke and Soffa Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Nextracker beats Kulicke and Soffa Industries on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KLIC vs. The Competition

MetricKulicke and Soffa IndustriesSemiconductors & related devices IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.55B$45.40B$21.65B$7.34B
Dividend Yield2.75%2.76%3.00%4.30%
P/E Ratio242.5033.7539.4517.80
Price / Sales2.2283.772,299.4697.71
Price / Cash47.3926.4934.6734.64
Price / Book1.605.605.653.98
Net Income-$69.01M$751.41M$737.25M$247.73M
7 Day Performance-2.58%0.32%1.20%1.80%
1 Month Performance-19.99%-17.43%-6.40%-6.97%
1 Year Performance-36.86%10.13%52,820.63%1.29%

Kulicke and Soffa Industries Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KLIC
Kulicke and Soffa Industries
3.4888 of 5 stars
$29.10
-0.7%
$52.00
+78.7%
-36.9%$1.55B$701.17M242.503,170Positive News
NXT
Nextracker
3.4894 of 5 stars
$40.73
+3.8%
$56.05
+37.6%
-9.5%$5.93B$2.77B10.361,050Analyst Forecast
OLED
Universal Display
4.5002 of 5 stars
$116.14
+3.0%
$190.43
+64.0%
-25.5%$5.51B$647.68M24.98440News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
QRVO
Qorvo
4.5131 of 5 stars
$58.93
+4.7%
$95.84
+62.6%
-46.6%$5.50B$3.79B210.468,900Short Interest ↓
Positive News
ALGM
Allegro MicroSystems
2.7753 of 5 stars
$22.01
-1.0%
$31.20
+41.8%
-31.6%$4.05B$772.76M-62.894,040
TSEM
Tower Semiconductor
4.3031 of 5 stars
$34.34
+1.2%
$60.00
+74.7%
+13.9%$3.81B$1.44B18.465,552Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Up
LITE
Lumentum
4.6641 of 5 stars
$52.36
+2.1%
$87.40
+66.9%
+22.5%$3.62B$1.41B-6.816,820Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
SITM
SiTime
2.1483 of 5 stars
$137.24
+5.6%
$232.00
+69.0%
+73.9%$3.24B$202.70M-33.89380Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
LPL
LG Display
0.3347 of 5 stars
$2.80
flat
N/A-28.0%$2.80B$26.62T-1.1627,700Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
VIAV
Viavi Solutions
4.5604 of 5 stars
$10.05
+1.8%
$12.50
+24.4%
+21.9%$2.23B$1.01B-55.833,600Gap Up
PI
Impinj
4.298 of 5 stars
$68.02
+1.9%
$183.44
+169.7%
-43.8%$1.94B$366.09M50.01390Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:KLIC) was last updated on 4/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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