SYNA vs. TSEM, ACIA, AMBA, DQ, MXL, IMMR, IVAC, NTAP, WDC, and LSCC
Should you be buying Synaptics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Synaptics include Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), Acacia Communications (ACIA), Ambarella (AMBA), Daqo New Energy (DQ), MaxLinear (MXL), Immersion (IMMR), Intevac (IVAC), NetApp (NTAP), Western Digital (WDC), and Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC).
Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ:TSEM) and Synaptics (NASDAQ:SYNA) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
70.5% of Tower Semiconductor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.4% of Synaptics shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Tower Semiconductor shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Synaptics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tower Semiconductor has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Synaptics has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Synaptics had 2 more articles in the media than Tower Semiconductor. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Synaptics and 3 mentions for Tower Semiconductor. Tower Semiconductor's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Synaptics' score of 1.14 indicating that Synaptics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Synaptics received 394 more outperform votes than Tower Semiconductor when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.58% of users gave Tower Semiconductor an outperform vote while only 63.24% of users gave Synaptics an outperform vote.
Tower Semiconductor has higher revenue and earnings than Synaptics. Synaptics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tower Semiconductor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tower Semiconductor has a net margin of 35.27% compared to Tower Semiconductor's net margin of -11.30%. Synaptics' return on equity of 8.78% beat Tower Semiconductor's return on equity.
Tower Semiconductor currently has a consensus target price of $46.33, suggesting a potential upside of 23.42%. Synaptics has a consensus target price of $117.67, suggesting a potential upside of 25.56%. Given Tower Semiconductor's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Synaptics is more favorable than Tower Semiconductor.
Summary
Tower Semiconductor beats Synaptics on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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