APH vs. GLW, DLB, LFUS, VSH, ROG, MEI, RFIL, AMD, ADBE, and CRM
Should you be buying Amphenol stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amphenol include Corning (GLW), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), Littelfuse (LFUS), Vishay Intertechnology (VSH), Rogers (ROG), Methode Electronics (MEI), RF Industries (RFIL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Adobe (ADBE), and Salesforce (CRM).
Corning (NYSE:GLW) and Amphenol (NYSE:APH) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, Amphenol had 31 more articles in the media than Corning. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for Amphenol and 21 mentions for Corning. Amphenol's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Corning's score of 0.38 indicating that Corning is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Corning has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amphenol has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
69.8% of Corning shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Amphenol shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Corning shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Amphenol shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Corning presently has a consensus target price of $43.38, suggesting a potential upside of 1.25%. Amphenol has a consensus target price of $65.35, suggesting a potential upside of 2.32%. Given Corning's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Amphenol is more favorable than Corning.
Amphenol has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Corning. Amphenol is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Corning, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Corning pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Amphenol pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Corning pays out 157.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Amphenol pays out 26.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Corning has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and Amphenol has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Corning is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Corning received 318 more outperform votes than Amphenol when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.07% of users gave Amphenol an outperform vote while only 63.97% of users gave Corning an outperform vote.
Amphenol has a net margin of 15.69% compared to Amphenol's net margin of 4.96%. Corning's return on equity of 24.08% beat Amphenol's return on equity.
Summary
Amphenol beats Corning on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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