LEDS vs. EMKR, NA, WISA, MMAT, LAES, SQNS, VERB, VISL, ICCT, and MINM
Should you be buying SemiLEDs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SemiLEDs include EMCORE (EMKR), Nano Labs (NA), WiSA Technologies (WISA), Meta Materials (MMAT), SEALSQ (LAES), Sequans Communications (SQNS), Verb Technology (VERB), Vislink Technologies (VISL), iCoreConnect (ICCT), and Minim (MINM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
EMCORE (NASDAQ:EMKR) and SemiLEDs (NASDAQ:LEDS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, EMCORE had 7 more articles in the media than SemiLEDs. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for EMCORE and 3 mentions for SemiLEDs. EMCORE's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat SemiLEDs' score of 0.20 indicating that SemiLEDs is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
EMCORE has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SemiLEDs has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
EMCORE currently has a consensus target price of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,315.09%. Given SemiLEDs' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe EMCORE is more favorable than SemiLEDs.
SemiLEDs has lower revenue, but higher earnings than EMCORE. SemiLEDs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EMCORE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EMCORE received 215 more outperform votes than SemiLEDs when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.72% of users gave EMCORE an outperform vote while only 41.74% of users gave SemiLEDs an outperform vote.
65.7% of EMCORE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.3% of SemiLEDs shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of EMCORE shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 40.0% of SemiLEDs shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SemiLEDs has a net margin of -49.29% compared to SemiLEDs' net margin of -68.57%. SemiLEDs' return on equity of -26.00% beat EMCORE's return on equity.
Summary
EMCORE beats SemiLEDs on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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