GLW vs. APH, DLB, LFUS, VSH, ROG, BDC, APWC, OCC, T, and LRCX
Should you be buying Corning stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Corning include Amphenol (APH), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), Littelfuse (LFUS), Vishay Intertechnology (VSH), Rogers (ROG), Belden (BDC), Asia Pacific Wire & Cable (APWC), Optical Cable (OCC), AT&T (T), and Lam Research (LRCX).
Amphenol (NYSE:APH) and Corning (NYSE:GLW) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
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 Amphenol's net margin of 4.96%. Corning's return on equity of 23.85% beat Amphenol's return on equity.
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 raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Corning has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Corning is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
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.
97.0% of Amphenol shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.8% of Corning shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Amphenol shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Corning shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Corning had 7 more articles in the media than Amphenol. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Corning and 10 mentions for Amphenol. Corning's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Amphenol's score of 0.52 indicating that Amphenol is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Amphenol presently has a consensus target price of $127.91, suggesting a potential downside of 3.37%. Corning has a consensus target price of $35.90, suggesting a potential downside of 3.65%. Given Corning's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amphenol is more favorable than Corning.
Amphenol has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Corning has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Amphenol beats Corning on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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