AMBA vs. MXL, DQ, SMTC, CSIQ, AOSL, XPER, POWI, SLAB, CRUS, and RMBS
Should you be buying Ambarella stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ambarella include MaxLinear (MXL), Daqo New Energy (DQ), Semtech (SMTC), Canadian Solar (CSIQ), Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOSL), Xperi (XPER), Power Integrations (POWI), Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), and Rambus (RMBS).
MaxLinear (NYSE:MXL) and Ambarella (NASDAQ:AMBA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
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.
MaxLinear has a beta of 1.98, meaning that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ambarella has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MaxLinear currently has a consensus price target of $26.09, suggesting a potential upside of 26.72%. Ambarella has a consensus price target of $71.08, suggesting a potential upside of 64.96%. Given MaxLinear's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ambarella is more favorable than MaxLinear.
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.
In the previous week, MaxLinear had 21 more articles in the media than Ambarella. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for MaxLinear and 2 mentions for Ambarella. Ambarella's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat MaxLinear's score of 0.26 indicating that MaxLinear is being referred to more favorably in the media.
90.8% of MaxLinear shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.1% of Ambarella shares are held by institutional investors. 8.6% of MaxLinear shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Ambarella shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
MaxLinear beats Ambarella on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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