SLAB vs. SYNA, MXL, IDT, CY, SWKS, LSCC, ALTR, MTSI, CRUS, and RMBS
Should you be buying Silicon Laboratories stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silicon Laboratories include Synaptics (SYNA), MaxLinear (MXL), IDT (IDT), Cypress Semiconductor (CY), Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), Altair Engineering (ALTR), MACOM Technology Solutions (MTSI), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), and Rambus (RMBS).
Synaptics (NASDAQ:SYNA) and Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ:SLAB) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
99.4% of Synaptics shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Synaptics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Silicon Laboratories shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Synaptics has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% 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.
Synaptics presently has a consensus price target of $117.67, indicating a potential upside of 25.56%. Silicon Laboratories has a consensus price target of $135.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.00%. Given Silicon Laboratories' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Synaptics is more favorable than Silicon Laboratories.
In the previous week, Synaptics had 2 more articles in the media than Silicon Laboratories. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Synaptics and 2 mentions for Silicon Laboratories. Silicon Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Synaptics' score of 1.09 indicating that Synaptics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Synaptics has higher revenue and earnings than Silicon Laboratories. Silicon Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Synaptics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Synaptics has a net margin of -11.30% compared to Synaptics' net margin of -16.36%. Silicon Laboratories' return on equity of -0.90% beat Synaptics' return on equity.
Synaptics received 102 more outperform votes than Silicon Laboratories when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.42% of users gave Silicon Laboratories an outperform vote while only 63.24% of users gave Synaptics an outperform vote.
Summary
Synaptics beats Silicon Laboratories on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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