LPL vs. DRS, NXT, QRVO, OLED, LITE, ALGM, SITM, TSEM, PI, and SIMO
Should you be buying LG Display stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LG Display include Leonardo DRS (DRS), Nextracker (NXT), Qorvo (QRVO), Universal Display (OLED), Lumentum (LITE), Allegro MicroSystems (ALGM), SiTime (SITM), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), Impinj (PI), and Silicon Motion Technology (SIMO). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.
LG Display vs. Its Competitors
Leonardo DRS (NASDAQ:DRS) and LG Display (NYSE:LPL) are both electronic equipment companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
18.8% of Leonardo DRS shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Leonardo DRS shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of LG Display shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Leonardo DRS presently has a consensus target price of $44.29, suggesting a potential downside of 6.09%. Given Leonardo DRS's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Leonardo DRS is more favorable than LG Display.
Leonardo DRS pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. LG Display pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Leonardo DRS pays out 41.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LG Display pays out -10.1% 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. LG Display is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Leonardo DRS has a net margin of 7.00% compared to LG Display's net margin of -7.17%. Leonardo DRS's return on equity of 10.63% beat LG Display's return on equity.
Leonardo DRS has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LG Display has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Leonardo DRS had 6 more articles in the media than LG Display. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Leonardo DRS and 1 mentions for LG Display. LG Display's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Leonardo DRS's score of 0.73 indicating that LG Display is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Leonardo DRS has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LG Display. LG Display is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leonardo DRS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Leonardo DRS beats LG Display on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:LPL) was last updated on 7/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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