IESC vs. DIOD, FROG, TDC, SVFCX, DV, RNG, VSH, AI, HAYW, and ASAN
Should you be buying IES stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IES include Diodes (DIOD), JFrog (FROG), Teradata (TDC), Smead Value C (SVFCX), DoubleVerify (DV), RingCentral (RNG), Vishay Intertechnology (VSH), C3.ai (AI), Hayward (HAYW), and Asana (ASAN). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
IES (NASDAQ:IESC) and Diodes (NASDAQ:DIOD) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
Diodes has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IES. Diodes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IES, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Diodes received 239 more outperform votes than IES when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.49% of users gave Diodes an outperform vote while only 63.87% of users gave IES an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Diodes had 1 more articles in the media than IES. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Diodes and 5 mentions for IES. Diodes' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat IES's score of 0.32 indicating that Diodes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IES has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diodes has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Diodes has a consensus price target of $74.20, suggesting a potential upside of 1.27%. Given Diodes' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Diodes is more favorable than IES.
Diodes has a net margin of 11.36% compared to IES's net margin of 5.27%. IES's return on equity of 30.22% beat Diodes' return on equity.
86.6% of IES shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.2% of Diodes shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.2% of IES shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Diodes shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Diodes beats IES on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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