AEIS vs. PI, VICR, VREX, MVIS, ONTO, MKSI, AMKR, FORM, ACLS, and VECO
Should you be buying Advanced Energy Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advanced Energy Industries include Impinj (PI), Vicor (VICR), Varex Imaging (VREX), MicroVision (MVIS), Onto Innovation (ONTO), MKS Instruments (MKSI), Amkor Technology (AMKR), FormFactor (FORM), Axcelis Technologies (ACLS), and Veeco Instruments (VECO).
Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ:AEIS) and Impinj (NASDAQ:PI) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Advanced Energy Industries presently has a consensus price target of $108.86, indicating a potential upside of 3.29%. Impinj has a consensus price target of $143.10, indicating a potential downside of 4.54%. Given Advanced Energy Industries' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Advanced Energy Industries is more favorable than Impinj.
Advanced Energy Industries received 27 more outperform votes than Impinj when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave Impinj an outperform vote while only 64.72% of users gave Advanced Energy Industries an outperform vote.
Advanced Energy Industries has a net margin of 6.58% compared to Impinj's net margin of -1.90%. Advanced Energy Industries' return on equity of 11.65% beat Impinj's return on equity.
In the previous week, Advanced Energy Industries had 2 more articles in the media than Impinj. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Advanced Energy Industries and 6 mentions for Impinj. Advanced Energy Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Impinj's score of 0.97 indicating that Advanced Energy Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Advanced Energy Industries has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Impinj has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Advanced Energy Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Impinj. Impinj is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advanced Energy Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.7% of Advanced Energy Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Advanced Energy Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.0% of Impinj shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Advanced Energy Industries beats Impinj on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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