CEVA vs. LASR, CAN, EBON, SGH, HIMX, MXL, AOSL, SPWR, NVEC, and QUIK
Should you be buying CEVA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CEVA include nLIGHT (LASR), Canaan (CAN), Ebang International (EBON), SMART Global (SGH), Himax Technologies (HIMX), MaxLinear (MXL), Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOSL), SunPower (SPWR), NVE (NVEC), and QuickLogic (QUIK).
CEVA (NASDAQ:CEVA) and nLIGHT (NASDAQ:LASR) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
85.4% of CEVA shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.9% of nLIGHT shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of CEVA shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of nLIGHT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CEVA has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, nLIGHT has a beta of 2.42, indicating that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CEVA presently has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.54%. nLIGHT has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 21.67%. Given CEVA's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe CEVA is more favorable than nLIGHT.
CEVA received 424 more outperform votes than nLIGHT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.00% of users gave CEVA an outperform vote while only 63.04% of users gave nLIGHT an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CEVA had 6 more articles in the media than nLIGHT. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for CEVA and 2 mentions for nLIGHT. nLIGHT's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat CEVA's score of -0.08 indicating that nLIGHT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CEVA has higher earnings, but lower revenue than nLIGHT. CEVA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than nLIGHT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CEVA has a net margin of -12.91% compared to nLIGHT's net margin of -23.81%. CEVA's return on equity of -5.70% beat nLIGHT's return on equity.
Summary
CEVA beats nLIGHT on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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