VIAV vs. NXT, OLED, QRVO, LITE, SITM, ALGM, TSEM, PI, LPL, and SIMO
Should you be buying Viavi Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viavi Solutions include Nextracker (NXT), Universal Display (OLED), Qorvo (QRVO), Lumentum (LITE), SiTime (SITM), Allegro MicroSystems (ALGM), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), Impinj (PI), LG Display (LPL), and Silicon Motion Technology (SIMO). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.
Viavi Solutions vs.
Nextracker (NASDAQ:NXT) and Viavi Solutions (NASDAQ:VIAV) are both mid-cap energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Nextracker has a beta of 2.03, indicating that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viavi Solutions has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Viavi Solutions received 590 more outperform votes than Nextracker when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.88% of users gave Nextracker an outperform vote while only 67.46% of users gave Viavi Solutions an outperform vote.
Nextracker presently has a consensus price target of $60.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.71%. Viavi Solutions has a consensus price target of $12.69, indicating a potential upside of 37.01%. Given Viavi Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Viavi Solutions is more favorable than Nextracker.
Nextracker has higher revenue and earnings than Viavi Solutions. Nextracker is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Viavi Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nextracker has a net margin of 20.12% compared to Viavi Solutions' net margin of -3.87%. Nextracker's return on equity of 41.22% beat Viavi Solutions' return on equity.
In the previous week, Nextracker had 54 more articles in the media than Viavi Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 59 mentions for Nextracker and 5 mentions for Viavi Solutions. Viavi Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Nextracker's score of 0.70 indicating that Viavi Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
67.4% of Nextracker shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Viavi Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Nextracker shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Viavi Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Nextracker beats Viavi Solutions on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:VIAV) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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