LPL vs. BOX, POWI, SATS, FROG, CAMT, BL, IPGP, DXC, CWAN, and SLAB
Should you be buying LG Display stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LG Display include BOX (BOX), Power Integrations (POWI), EchoStar (SATS), JFrog (FROG), Camtek (CAMT), BlackLine (BL), IPG Photonics (IPGP), DXC Technology (DXC), Clearwater Analytics (CWAN), and Silicon Laboratories (SLAB). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
BOX (NYSE:BOX) and LG Display (NYSE:LPL) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
86.7% of BOX shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of BOX shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of LG Display shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BOX currently has a consensus price target of $30.89, suggesting a potential upside of 14.49%. Given LG Display's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BOX is more favorable than LG Display.
In the previous week, LG Display had 9 more articles in the media than BOX. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for LG Display and 1 mentions for BOX. LG Display's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat BOX's score of 0.45 indicating that BOX is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BOX has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LG Display. LG Display is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BOX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BOX has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LG Display has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BOX has a net margin of 12.43% compared to BOX's net margin of -12.93%. LG Display's return on equity of -9.46% beat BOX's return on equity.
BOX received 403 more outperform votes than LG Display when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.86% of users gave BOX an outperform vote while only 56.18% of users gave LG Display an outperform vote.
Summary
BOX beats LG Display on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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