VIAV vs. DQ, EXFO, SPWR, RMBS, CRDO, ALGM, TSEM, FORM, POWI, and IPGP
Should you be buying Viavi Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viavi Solutions include Daqo New Energy (DQ), EXFO (EXFO), SunPower (SPWR), Rambus (RMBS), Credo Technology Group (CRDO), Allegro MicroSystems (ALGM), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), FormFactor (FORM), Power Integrations (POWI), and IPG Photonics (IPGP).
Daqo New Energy (NYSE:DQ) and Viavi Solutions (NASDAQ:VIAV) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Daqo New Energy has a net margin of 7.84% compared to Daqo New Energy's net margin of -0.42%. Daqo New Energy's return on equity of 4.65% beat Viavi Solutions' return on equity.
Daqo New Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Viavi Solutions. Viavi Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Daqo New Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Daqo New Energy presently has a consensus price target of $27.63, suggesting a potential upside of 56.78%. Viavi Solutions has a consensus price target of $11.65, suggesting a potential upside of 48.60%. Given Viavi Solutions' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Daqo New Energy is more favorable than Viavi Solutions.
Viavi Solutions received 310 more outperform votes than Daqo New Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.90% of users gave Viavi Solutions an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Daqo New Energy an outperform vote.
47.2% of Daqo New Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Viavi Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.3% of Daqo New Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% 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 stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Daqo New Energy had 9 more articles in the media than Viavi Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Daqo New Energy and 4 mentions for Viavi Solutions. Daqo New Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Viavi Solutions' score of 0.57 indicating that Viavi Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Daqo New Energy has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viavi Solutions has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Daqo New Energy and Viavi Solutions tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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