DLB vs. LFUS, VSH, ROG, APH, GLW, IDCC, ACTG, APPS, JYNT, and REFR
Should you be buying Dolby Laboratories stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dolby Laboratories include Littelfuse (LFUS), Vishay Intertechnology (VSH), Rogers (ROG), Amphenol (APH), Corning (GLW), InterDigital (IDCC), Acacia Research (ACTG), Digital Turbine (APPS), Joint (JYNT), and Research Frontiers (REFR).
Dolby Laboratories (NYSE:DLB) and Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
Dolby Laboratories has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Littelfuse has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dolby Laboratories and Dolby Laboratories both had 7 articles in the media. Dolby Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Littelfuse's score of 0.98 indicating that Dolby Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the media.
58.6% of Dolby Laboratories shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Littelfuse shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.5% of Dolby Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Littelfuse shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dolby Laboratories pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Littelfuse pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Dolby Laboratories pays out 61.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Littelfuse pays out 29.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Dolby Laboratories has a net margin of 15.00% compared to Littelfuse's net margin of 9.58%. Littelfuse's return on equity of 10.21% beat Dolby Laboratories' return on equity.
Littelfuse received 25 more outperform votes than Dolby Laboratories when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.35% of users gave Littelfuse an outperform vote while only 57.67% of users gave Dolby Laboratories an outperform vote.
Dolby Laboratories currently has a consensus target price of $99.00, indicating a potential upside of 26.36%. Littelfuse has a consensus target price of $270.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.84%. Given Dolby Laboratories' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Dolby Laboratories is more favorable than Littelfuse.
Littelfuse has higher revenue and earnings than Dolby Laboratories. Littelfuse is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dolby Laboratories, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Dolby Laboratories and Littelfuse tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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