IPGP vs. SLAB, POWI, FORM, TSEM, SYNA, DIOD, SEDG, CRUS, WOLF, and CREE
Should you be buying IPG Photonics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IPG Photonics include Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), Power Integrations (POWI), FormFactor (FORM), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), Synaptics (SYNA), Diodes (DIOD), SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), Wolfspeed (WOLF), and Cree (CREE).
IPG Photonics (NASDAQ:IPGP) and Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ:SLAB) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Silicon Laboratories had 1 more articles in the media than IPG Photonics. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Silicon Laboratories and 3 mentions for IPG Photonics. Silicon Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat IPG Photonics' score of 0.62 indicating that Silicon Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IPG Photonics has a net margin of 15.34% compared to Silicon Laboratories' net margin of -16.36%. IPG Photonics' return on equity of 7.67% beat Silicon Laboratories' return on equity.
93.8% of IPG Photonics shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.0% of IPG Photonics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Silicon Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Silicon Laboratories received 171 more outperform votes than IPG Photonics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.48% of users gave Silicon Laboratories an outperform vote while only 66.33% of users gave IPG Photonics an outperform vote.
IPG Photonics has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silicon Laboratories has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
IPG Photonics presently has a consensus price target of $110.40, indicating a potential upside of 22.86%. Silicon Laboratories has a consensus price target of $135.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.70%. Given IPG Photonics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe IPG Photonics is more favorable than Silicon Laboratories.
IPG Photonics has higher revenue and earnings than Silicon Laboratories. Silicon Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IPG Photonics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
IPG Photonics beats Silicon Laboratories on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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