STM vs. ARM, MU, INTC, ADI, NXPI, MRVL, MCHP, MPWR, ON, and FSLR
Should you be buying STMicroelectronics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of STMicroelectronics include ARM (ARM), Micron Technology (MU), Intel (INTC), Analog Devices (ADI), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), Marvell Technology (MRVL), Microchip Technology (MCHP), Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR), Onsemi (ON), and First Solar (FSLR). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
ARM (NASDAQ:ARM) and STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
STMicroelectronics has a net margin of 22.30% compared to STMicroelectronics' net margin of 9.46%. ARM's return on equity of 22.95% beat STMicroelectronics' return on equity.
7.5% of ARM shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.1% of STMicroelectronics shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
STMicroelectronics has a consensus price target of $50.75, indicating a potential upside of 12.20%. Given ARM's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe STMicroelectronics is more favorable than ARM.
STMicroelectronics has higher revenue and earnings than ARM.
STMicroelectronics received 491 more outperform votes than ARM when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.71% of users gave ARM an outperform vote while only 62.09% of users gave STMicroelectronics an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ARM had 21 more articles in the media than STMicroelectronics. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for ARM and 6 mentions for STMicroelectronics. ARM's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat STMicroelectronics' score of 0.71 indicating that STMicroelectronics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
STMicroelectronics beats ARM on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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