TTM Technologies (TTMI) Competitors

TTM Technologies (NASDAQ:TTMI) and Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) are both electronic manufacturing services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation and profitability.

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in TTMI or TRMB?

95.8% of TTM Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of Trimble shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of TTM Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Trimble shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, TTMI or TRMB?

Trimble has higher revenue and earnings than TTM Technologies. TTM Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trimble, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TTM Technologies	$2.65B	2.11	$56.30M	$0.90	60.17
Trimble	$3.68B	5.16	$1.50B	$1.16	68.86

Do analysts prefer TTMI or TRMB?

TTM Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $54.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.65%. Trimble has a consensus target price of $90.75, indicating a potential upside of 13.61%. Given Trimble's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Trimble is more favorable than TTM Technologies.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TTM Technologies	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Trimble	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.13

Is TTMI or TRMB more profitable?

Trimble has a net margin of 8.02% compared to TTM Technologies' net margin of 3.52%. TTM Technologies' return on equity of 11.80% beat Trimble's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TTM Technologies	3.52%	11.80%	5.37%
Trimble	8.02%	10.24%	6.23%

Which has more risk & volatility, TTMI or TRMB?

TTM Technologies has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trimble has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer TTMI or TRMB?

In the previous week, Trimble had 8 more articles in the media than TTM Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Trimble and 18 mentions for TTM Technologies. Trimble's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat TTM Technologies' score of 0.84 indicating that Trimble is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
TTM Technologies	6 Very Positive mention(s)	7 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Trimble	13 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	9 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Trimble beats TTM Technologies on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.