LEDS vs. EMKR, NA, WISA, MMAT, LAES, SQNS, VERB, VISL, ICCT, and MINM
Should you be buying SemiLEDs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SemiLEDs include EMCORE (EMKR), Nano Labs (NA), WiSA Technologies (WISA), Meta Materials (MMAT), SEALSQ (LAES), Sequans Communications (SQNS), Verb Technology (VERB), Vislink Technologies (VISL), iCoreConnect (ICCT), and Minim (MINM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
SemiLEDs (NASDAQ:LEDS) and EMCORE (NASDAQ:EMKR) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
SemiLEDs has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EMCORE has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SemiLEDs has a net margin of -49.29% compared to EMCORE's net margin of -68.57%. EMCORE's return on equity of -27.56% beat SemiLEDs' return on equity.
In the previous week, EMCORE had 5 more articles in the media than SemiLEDs. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for EMCORE and 0 mentions for SemiLEDs. SemiLEDs' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat EMCORE's score of -0.35 indicating that SemiLEDs is being referred to more favorably in the media.
76.3% of SemiLEDs shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.7% of EMCORE shares are held by institutional investors. 40.0% of SemiLEDs shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of EMCORE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SemiLEDs has higher earnings, but lower revenue than EMCORE. SemiLEDs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EMCORE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EMCORE has a consensus price target of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,315.09%. Given EMCORE's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe EMCORE is more favorable than SemiLEDs.
EMCORE received 215 more outperform votes than SemiLEDs when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.72% of users gave EMCORE an outperform vote while only 41.74% of users gave SemiLEDs an outperform vote.
Summary
EMCORE beats SemiLEDs on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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