LPL vs. AEIS, PI, VICR, AI, NVMI, BL, NCNO, EVH, ATHM, and BOX
Should you be buying LG Display stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LG Display include Advanced Energy Industries (AEIS), Impinj (PI), Vicor (VICR), C3.ai (AI), Nova (NVMI), BlackLine (BL), nCino (NCNO), Evolent Health (EVH), Autohome (ATHM), and BOX (BOX). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
LG Display (NYSE:LPL) and Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ:AEIS) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
2.0% of LG Display shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Advanced Energy Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of LG Display shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Advanced Energy Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Advanced Energy Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LG Display. LG Display is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advanced Energy Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Advanced Energy Industries has a consensus price target of $113.44, indicating a potential upside of 18.33%. Given Advanced Energy Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Advanced Energy Industries is more favorable than LG Display.
LG Display has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advanced Energy Industries has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Advanced Energy Industries had 4 more articles in the media than LG Display. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Advanced Energy Industries and 2 mentions for LG Display. Advanced Energy Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat LG Display's score of 0.41 indicating that Advanced Energy Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Advanced Energy Industries has a net margin of 7.73% compared to LG Display's net margin of -22.07%. Advanced Energy Industries' return on equity of 16.41% beat LG Display's return on equity.
Advanced Energy Industries received 87 more outperform votes than LG Display when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.43% of users gave Advanced Energy Industries an outperform vote while only 56.23% of users gave LG Display an outperform vote.
Summary
Advanced Energy Industries beats LG Display on 16 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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