KOPN vs. MRAM, PXLW, HIMX, LPL, HPE, AAPL, DELL, HPQ, DBD, and SSYS
Should you be buying Kopin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kopin include Everspin Technologies (MRAM), Pixelworks (PXLW), Himax Technologies (HIMX), LG Display (LPL), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Apple (AAPL), Dell Technologies (DELL), HP (HPQ), Diebold Nixdorf (DBD), and Stratasys (SSYS).
Everspin Technologies (NASDAQ:MRAM) and Kopin (NASDAQ:KOPN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
Everspin Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 51.01%. Kopin has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 274.11%. Given Everspin Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kopin is more favorable than Everspin Technologies.
In the previous week, Everspin Technologies had 4 more articles in the media than Kopin. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Everspin Technologies and 2 mentions for Kopin. Everspin Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Kopin's score of -0.02 indicating that Kopin is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Everspin Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Kopin. Kopin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Everspin Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Everspin Technologies has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kopin has a beta of 2.56, meaning that its stock price is 156% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Everspin Technologies has a net margin of 12.77% compared to Everspin Technologies' net margin of -125.20%. Kopin's return on equity of 15.70% beat Everspin Technologies' return on equity.
44.7% of Everspin Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.0% of Kopin shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Everspin Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Kopin shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Kopin received 28 more outperform votes than Everspin Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.73% of users gave Everspin Technologies an outperform vote while only 57.93% of users gave Kopin an outperform vote.
Summary
Everspin Technologies beats Kopin on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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