TER vs. ENTG, ZM, UMC, TYL, GDDY, ERIC, PSTG, PTC, IOT, and NOK
Should you be buying Teradyne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teradyne include Entegris (ENTG), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), United Microelectronics (UMC), Tyler Technologies (TYL), GoDaddy (GDDY), Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (ERIC), Pure Storage (PSTG), PTC (PTC), Samsara (IOT), and Nokia Oyj (NOK). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Entegris (NASDAQ:ENTG) and Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, risk, earnings and valuation.
Entegris currently has a consensus price target of $148.67, suggesting a potential upside of 14.80%. Teradyne has a consensus price target of $117.83, suggesting a potential downside of 10.67%. Given Teradyne's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Entegris is more favorable than Teradyne.
In the previous week, Teradyne had 10 more articles in the media than Entegris. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Teradyne and 13 mentions for Entegris. Teradyne's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Entegris' score of 0.82 indicating that Entegris is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Entegris received 429 more outperform votes than Teradyne when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.73% of users gave Entegris an outperform vote while only 44.09% of users gave Teradyne an outperform vote.
Entegris pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Teradyne pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Entegris pays out 19.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Teradyne pays out 18.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Teradyne has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Teradyne is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
99.8% of Teradyne shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Entegris shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Teradyne shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Entegris has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teradyne has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Teradyne has a net margin of 16.15% compared to Teradyne's net margin of 9.31%. Entegris' return on equity of 18.88% beat Teradyne's return on equity.
Teradyne has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Entegris. Teradyne is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Entegris, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Teradyne beats Entegris on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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