UCTT vs. PLAB, CEVA, FORM, VIAV, SITM, MXL, AMBA, SMTC, ICHR, and SIMO
Should you be buying Ultra Clean stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ultra Clean include Photronics (PLAB), CEVA (CEVA), FormFactor (FORM), Viavi Solutions (VIAV), SiTime (SITM), MaxLinear (MXL), Ambarella (AMBA), Semtech (SMTC), Ichor (ICHR), and Silicon Motion Technology (SIMO). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Photronics (NASDAQ:PLAB) and Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Photronics has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ultra Clean has a beta of 2.03, suggesting that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Photronics has a net margin of 15.34% compared to Photronics' net margin of -1.79%. Ultra Clean's return on equity of 10.37% beat Photronics' return on equity.
Photronics currently has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential downside of 25.74%. Ultra Clean has a consensus price target of $52.33, suggesting a potential upside of 24.72%. Given Photronics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ultra Clean is more favorable than Photronics.
Photronics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ultra Clean. Ultra Clean is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Photronics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ultra Clean received 129 more outperform votes than Photronics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.50% of users gave Ultra Clean an outperform vote while only 66.48% of users gave Photronics an outperform vote.
88.4% of Photronics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Ultra Clean shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Photronics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Ultra Clean shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Photronics had 1 more articles in the media than Ultra Clean. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Photronics and 4 mentions for Ultra Clean. Photronics' average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Ultra Clean's score of 1.53 indicating that Ultra Clean is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Photronics and Ultra Clean tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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