AXTI vs. ATOM, QUIK, SOL, POET, PXLW, MX, KOPN, MOBX, CAN, and GSIT
Should you be buying AXT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AXT include Atomera (ATOM), QuickLogic (QUIK), Emeren Group (SOL), POET Technologies (POET), Pixelworks (PXLW), Magnachip Semiconductor (MX), Kopin (KOPN), Mobix Labs (MOBX), Canaan (CAN), and GSI Technology (GSIT). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
AXT (NASDAQ:AXTI) and Atomera (NASDAQ:ATOM) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Atomera has a net margin of 0.00% compared to AXT's net margin of -21.01%. AXT's return on equity of -7.40% beat Atomera's return on equity.
AXT presently has a consensus target price of $5.38, indicating a potential upside of 63.87%. Given AXT's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AXT is more favorable than Atomera.
49.5% of AXT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.8% of Atomera shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.4% of AXT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of Atomera shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AXT has higher revenue and earnings than Atomera. AXT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atomera, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AXT had 8 more articles in the media than Atomera. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for AXT and 1 mentions for Atomera. Atomera's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat AXT's score of 0.00 indicating that Atomera is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AXT received 300 more outperform votes than Atomera when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.63% of users gave AXT an outperform vote while only 59.02% of users gave Atomera an outperform vote.
AXT has a beta of 2.28, indicating that its share price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atomera has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AXT beats Atomera on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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