SYNA vs. AMBA, MXL, DQ, CSIQ, ACIA, IMMR, IVAC, NTAP, WDC, and QRVO
Should you be buying Synaptics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Synaptics include Ambarella (AMBA), MaxLinear (MXL), Daqo New Energy (DQ), Canadian Solar (CSIQ), Acacia Communications (ACIA), Immersion (IMMR), Intevac (IVAC), NetApp (NTAP), Western Digital (WDC), and Qorvo (QRVO).
Synaptics (NASDAQ:SYNA) and Ambarella (NASDAQ:AMBA) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Synaptics currently has a consensus target price of $105.44, indicating a potential upside of 48.51%. Ambarella has a consensus target price of $74.58, indicating a potential upside of 44.60%. Given Synaptics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Synaptics is more favorable than Ambarella.
Ambarella received 44 more outperform votes than Synaptics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.88% of users gave Ambarella an outperform vote while only 63.30% of users gave Synaptics an outperform vote.
Synaptics has a net margin of 13.09% compared to Ambarella's net margin of -79.46%. Synaptics' return on equity of -0.54% beat Ambarella's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ambarella had 22 more articles in the media than Synaptics. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Ambarella and 4 mentions for Synaptics. Synaptics' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Ambarella's score of 0.63 indicating that Synaptics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.4% of Synaptics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.1% of Ambarella shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Synaptics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Ambarella shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Synaptics has higher revenue and earnings than Ambarella. Synaptics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ambarella, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Synaptics has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ambarella has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Synaptics beats Ambarella on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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