CTS vs. TTMI, BHE, PLXS, SANM, KE, NNDM, CLS, PAR, COHU, and NTCT
Should you be buying CTS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CTS include TTM Technologies (TTMI), Benchmark Electronics (BHE), Plexus (PLXS), Sanmina (SANM), Kimball Electronics (KE), Nano Dimension (NNDM), Celestica (CLS), PAR Technology (PAR), Cohu (COHU), and NetScout Systems (NTCT). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
TTM Technologies (NASDAQ:TTMI) and CTS (NYSE:CTS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and community ranking.
TTM Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $16.17, indicating a potential upside of 9.38%. CTS has a consensus target price of $43.67, indicating a potential downside of 4.41%. Given CTS's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe TTM Technologies is more favorable than CTS.
CTS has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TTM Technologies. TTM Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CTS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CTS had 12 more articles in the media than TTM Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for CTS and 3 mentions for TTM Technologies. TTM Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat CTS's score of 0.00 indicating that CTS is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CTS has a net margin of 11.00% compared to CTS's net margin of -0.84%. TTM Technologies' return on equity of 13.41% beat CTS's return on equity.
TTM Technologies received 154 more outperform votes than CTS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.19% of users gave TTM Technologies an outperform vote while only 66.60% of users gave CTS an outperform vote.
TTM Technologies has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CTS has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
95.8% of TTM Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.9% of CTS shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of TTM Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of CTS shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
CTS beats TTM Technologies on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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