CRUS vs. SLAB, POWI, RMBS, SMTC, MTSI, MXL, AMBA, SPWR, LSCC, and SWKS
Should you be buying Cirrus Logic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cirrus Logic include Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), Power Integrations (POWI), Rambus (RMBS), Semtech (SMTC), MACOM Technology Solutions (MTSI), MaxLinear (MXL), Ambarella (AMBA), SunPower (SPWR), Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), and Skyworks Solutions (SWKS). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors" industry.
Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ:SLAB) and Cirrus Logic (NASDAQ:CRUS) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
Cirrus Logic has a net margin of 9.84% compared to Cirrus Logic's net margin of -16.36%. Silicon Laboratories' return on equity of 16.13% beat Cirrus Logic's return on equity.
Silicon Laboratories has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cirrus Logic has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
88.0% of Cirrus Logic shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Silicon Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Cirrus Logic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cirrus Logic has higher revenue and earnings than Silicon Laboratories. Silicon Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cirrus Logic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Silicon Laboratories had 36 more articles in the media than Cirrus Logic. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for Silicon Laboratories and 9 mentions for Cirrus Logic. Silicon Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Cirrus Logic's score of 0.16 indicating that Cirrus Logic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cirrus Logic received 58 more outperform votes than Silicon Laboratories when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.47% of users gave Cirrus Logic an outperform vote while only 68.55% of users gave Silicon Laboratories an outperform vote.
Silicon Laboratories presently has a consensus price target of $135.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.22%. Cirrus Logic has a consensus price target of $96.43, suggesting a potential upside of 8.52%. Given Cirrus Logic's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Silicon Laboratories is more favorable than Cirrus Logic.
Summary
Cirrus Logic beats Silicon Laboratories on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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