VIAV vs. MXL, PLAB, AMBA, UCTT, DQ, ICHR, INDI, HIMX, OSIS, and SGH
Should you be buying Viavi Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viavi Solutions include MaxLinear (MXL), Photronics (PLAB), Ambarella (AMBA), Ultra Clean (UCTT), Daqo New Energy (DQ), Ichor (ICHR), indie Semiconductor (INDI), Himax Technologies (HIMX), OSI Systems (OSIS), and SMART Global (SGH). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
MaxLinear (NYSE:MXL) and Viavi Solutions (NASDAQ:VIAV) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
MaxLinear currently has a consensus target price of $25.70, suggesting a potential upside of 32.13%. Viavi Solutions has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 55.04%. Given MaxLinear's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Viavi Solutions is more favorable than MaxLinear.
MaxLinear has a beta of 1.92, meaning that its stock price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viavi Solutions has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Viavi Solutions had 4 more articles in the media than MaxLinear. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Viavi Solutions and 2 mentions for MaxLinear. MaxLinear's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Viavi Solutions' score of 0.67 indicating that Viavi Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Viavi Solutions received 72 more outperform votes than MaxLinear when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.77% of users gave MaxLinear an outperform vote while only 67.97% of users gave Viavi Solutions an outperform vote.
90.8% of MaxLinear shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Viavi Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.6% of MaxLinear shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Viavi Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Viavi Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than MaxLinear. Viavi Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MaxLinear, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Viavi Solutions has a net margin of -0.42% compared to Viavi Solutions' net margin of -28.70%. MaxLinear's return on equity of 4.65% beat Viavi Solutions' return on equity.
Summary
Viavi Solutions beats MaxLinear on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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