AMBA vs. MXL, SMTC, DQ, CSIQ, AOSL, XPER, DIOD, POWI, SLAB, and CRUS
Should you be buying Ambarella stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ambarella include MaxLinear (MXL), Semtech (SMTC), Daqo New Energy (DQ), Canadian Solar (CSIQ), Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOSL), Xperi (XPER), Diodes (DIOD), Power Integrations (POWI), Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), and Cirrus Logic (CRUS).
Ambarella (NASDAQ:AMBA) and MaxLinear (NYSE:MXL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
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 higher revenue and earnings than Ambarella. Ambarella is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MaxLinear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MaxLinear has a net margin of -28.70% compared to Ambarella's net margin of -74.81%. MaxLinear's return on equity of -4.75% beat Ambarella's return on equity.
Ambarella has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MaxLinear has a beta of 1.92, suggesting that its stock price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ambarella presently has a consensus target price of $71.08, indicating a potential upside of 55.03%. MaxLinear has a consensus target price of $26.09, indicating a potential upside of 40.88%. Given Ambarella's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Ambarella is more favorable than MaxLinear.
82.1% of Ambarella shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of MaxLinear shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Ambarella shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of MaxLinear shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Ambarella had 3 more articles in the media than MaxLinear. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ambarella and 1 mentions for MaxLinear. Ambarella's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat MaxLinear's score of 0.38 indicating that Ambarella is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
MaxLinear beats Ambarella on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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