BHE vs. SANM, PLXS, MRCY, IPGP, TTMI, CTS, MEI, PKE, NEON, and KTCC
Should you be buying Benchmark Electronics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Benchmark Electronics include Sanmina (SANM), Plexus (PLXS), Mercury Systems (MRCY), IPG Photonics (IPGP), TTM Technologies (TTMI), CTS (CTS), Methode Electronics (MEI), Park Aerospace (PKE), Neonode (NEON), and Key Tronic (KTCC). These companies are all part of the "electronic manufacturing services" industry.
Benchmark Electronics vs.
Benchmark Electronics (NYSE:BHE) and Sanmina (NASDAQ:SANM) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings and risk.
Benchmark Electronics currently has a consensus target price of $47.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.60%. Sanmina has a consensus target price of $80.50, indicating a potential downside of 4.68%. Given Benchmark Electronics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Benchmark Electronics is more favorable than Sanmina.
Sanmina has higher revenue and earnings than Benchmark Electronics. Sanmina is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Benchmark Electronics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sanmina has a net margin of 2.99% compared to Benchmark Electronics' net margin of 2.38%. Sanmina's return on equity of 10.61% beat Benchmark Electronics' return on equity.
Benchmark Electronics has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sanmina has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sanmina had 25 more articles in the media than Benchmark Electronics. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Sanmina and 4 mentions for Benchmark Electronics. Benchmark Electronics' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Sanmina's score of 0.75 indicating that Benchmark Electronics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.3% of Benchmark Electronics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Sanmina shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Benchmark Electronics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Sanmina shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sanmina received 153 more outperform votes than Benchmark Electronics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.90% of users gave Sanmina an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave Benchmark Electronics an outperform vote.
Summary
Sanmina beats Benchmark Electronics on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BHE) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff