IPGP vs. SLAB, POWI, TSEM, CRUS, SYNA, SEDG, FORM, WOLF, LITE, and ALGM
Should you be buying IPG Photonics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IPG Photonics include Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), Power Integrations (POWI), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), Synaptics (SYNA), SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG), FormFactor (FORM), Wolfspeed (WOLF), Lumentum (LITE), and Allegro MicroSystems (ALGM).
IPG Photonics (NASDAQ:IPGP) and Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ:SLAB) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking and valuation.
In the previous week, Silicon Laboratories had 36 more articles in the media than IPG Photonics. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for Silicon Laboratories and 10 mentions for IPG Photonics. IPG Photonics' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Silicon Laboratories' score of 0.14 indicating that IPG Photonics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
IPG Photonics currently has a consensus price target of $117.20, indicating a potential upside of 32.58%. Silicon Laboratories has a consensus price target of $135.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.54%. Given IPG Photonics' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe IPG Photonics is more favorable than Silicon Laboratories.
Silicon Laboratories received 172 more outperform votes than IPG Photonics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.55% of users gave Silicon Laboratories an outperform vote while only 66.45% of users gave IPG Photonics an outperform vote.
IPG Photonics has higher revenue and earnings than Silicon Laboratories. Silicon Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IPG Photonics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IPG Photonics has a net margin of 17.00% compared to Silicon Laboratories' net margin of -16.36%. IPG Photonics' return on equity of 9.18% beat Silicon Laboratories' return on equity.
IPG Photonics has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silicon Laboratories has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
93.8% of IPG Photonics shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.1% of IPG Photonics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Silicon Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
IPG Photonics beats Silicon Laboratories on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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