WOLF vs. DIOD, SITM, SYNA, KLIC, SMTC, SIMO, OSIS, TSEM, SLAB, and IPGP
Should you be buying Wolfspeed stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wolfspeed include Diodes (DIOD), SiTime (SITM), Synaptics (SYNA), Kulicke and Soffa Industries (KLIC), Semtech (SMTC), Silicon Motion Technology (SIMO), OSI Systems (OSIS), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), and IPG Photonics (IPGP). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
Wolfspeed (NYSE:WOLF) and Diodes (NASDAQ:DIOD) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Diodes has higher revenue and earnings than Wolfspeed. Wolfspeed is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diodes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Wolfspeed had 3 more articles in the media than Diodes. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Wolfspeed and 6 mentions for Diodes. Diodes' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Wolfspeed's score of 0.64 indicating that Diodes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Diodes has a net margin of 11.36% compared to Wolfspeed's net margin of -96.12%. Diodes' return on equity of 9.11% beat Wolfspeed's return on equity.
Wolfspeed presently has a consensus price target of $36.29, indicating a potential upside of 42.13%. Diodes has a consensus price target of $74.20, indicating a potential upside of 1.27%. Given Wolfspeed's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Wolfspeed is more favorable than Diodes.
Diodes received 385 more outperform votes than Wolfspeed when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.49% of users gave Diodes an outperform vote while only 30.53% of users gave Wolfspeed an outperform vote.
99.2% of Diodes shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Wolfspeed shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Diodes shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Wolfspeed has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diodes has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Diodes beats Wolfspeed on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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