MXL vs. AMBA, SMTC, AOSL, POWI, SLAB, CRUS, RMBS, SITM, PLAB, and UCTT
Should you be buying MaxLinear stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MaxLinear include Ambarella (AMBA), Semtech (SMTC), Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOSL), Power Integrations (POWI), Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), Rambus (RMBS), SiTime (SITM), Photronics (PLAB), and Ultra Clean (UCTT). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
Ambarella (NASDAQ:AMBA) and MaxLinear (NYSE:MXL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
MaxLinear has higher revenue and earnings than Ambarella. MaxLinear is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ambarella, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ambarella has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MaxLinear has a beta of 1.98, meaning that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ambarella currently has a consensus target price of $71.08, suggesting a potential upside of 64.96%. MaxLinear has a consensus target price of $26.09, suggesting a potential upside of 26.72%. Given MaxLinear's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ambarella is more favorable than MaxLinear.
In the previous week, MaxLinear had 22 more articles in the media than Ambarella. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for MaxLinear and 1 mentions for Ambarella. MaxLinear's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Ambarella's score of 0.27 indicating that Ambarella is being referred to more favorably in the media.
82.1% of Ambarella shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of MaxLinear shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Ambarella shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of MaxLinear shares are held by company 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.
MaxLinear has a net margin of -28.70% compared to MaxLinear's net margin of -74.81%. Ambarella's return on equity of -4.75% beat MaxLinear's return on equity.
Ambarella received 243 more outperform votes than MaxLinear when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.77% of users gave MaxLinear an outperform vote while only 67.89% of users gave Ambarella an outperform vote.
Summary
MaxLinear beats Ambarella on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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