APH vs. GLW, DLB, LFUS, VSH, ROG, MEI, RFIL, AMD, CRM, and QCOM
Should you be buying Amphenol stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amphenol include Corning (GLW), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), Littelfuse (LFUS), Vishay Intertechnology (VSH), Rogers (ROG), Methode Electronics (MEI), RF Industries (RFIL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Salesforce (CRM), and QUALCOMM (QCOM).
Amphenol (NYSE:APH) and Corning (NYSE:GLW) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Corning received 317 more outperform votes than Amphenol when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.12% of users gave Amphenol an outperform vote while only 64.23% of users gave Corning an outperform vote.
Amphenol currently has a consensus target price of $127.91, indicating a potential downside of 3.37%. Corning has a consensus target price of $35.90, indicating a potential downside of 3.65%. Given Amphenol's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Amphenol is more favorable than Corning.
Amphenol has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Corning. Amphenol is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Corning, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amphenol has a net margin of 15.87% compared to Corning's net margin of 4.96%. Amphenol's return on equity of 23.85% beat Corning's return on equity.
97.0% of Amphenol shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.8% of Corning shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Amphenol shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Corning shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Amphenol pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Corning pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Amphenol pays out 26.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Corning pays out 157.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Amphenol has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Corning has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Corning had 7 more articles in the media than Amphenol. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Corning and 12 mentions for Amphenol. Amphenol's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Corning's score of 0.61 indicating that Amphenol is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Amphenol beats Corning on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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