SLAB vs. POWI, DIOD, CRUS, SMTC, RMBS, AMBA, MXL, IDT, MTSI, and LSCC
Should you be buying Silicon Laboratories stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silicon Laboratories include Power Integrations (POWI), Diodes (DIOD), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), Semtech (SMTC), Rambus (RMBS), Ambarella (AMBA), MaxLinear (MXL), IDT (IDT), MACOM Technology Solutions (MTSI), and Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC).
Power Integrations (NASDAQ:POWI) and Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ:SLAB) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
Power Integrations has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silicon Laboratories has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Power Integrations currently has a consensus target price of $87.40, suggesting a potential upside of 13.82%. Silicon Laboratories has a consensus target price of $135.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.69%. Given Silicon Laboratories' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Power Integrations is more favorable than Silicon Laboratories.
Power Integrations has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Silicon Laboratories. Silicon Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Power Integrations, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Power Integrations had 9 more articles in the media than Silicon Laboratories. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Power Integrations and 6 mentions for Silicon Laboratories. Power Integrations' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Silicon Laboratories' score of 0.75 indicating that Silicon Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Silicon Laboratories received 274 more outperform votes than Power Integrations when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.48% of users gave Silicon Laboratories an outperform vote while only 63.09% of users gave Power Integrations an outperform vote.
Power Integrations has a net margin of 12.28% compared to Power Integrations' net margin of -16.36%. Silicon Laboratories' return on equity of 6.13% beat Power Integrations' return on equity.
Summary
Power Integrations beats Silicon Laboratories on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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