APH vs. GLW, DLB, LFUS, VSH, ROG, MEI, RFIL, AMD, QCOM, and CRM
Should you be buying Amphenol stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amphenol include Corning (GLW), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), Littelfuse (LFUS), Vishay Intertechnology (VSH), Rogers (ROG), Methode Electronics (MEI), RF Industries (RFIL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), QUALCOMM (QCOM), and Salesforce (CRM).
Amphenol (NYSE:APH) and Corning (NYSE:GLW) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Amphenol currently has a consensus price target of $127.91, indicating a potential downside of 3.37%. Corning has a consensus price target of $35.90, indicating a potential downside of 3.65%. Given Amphenol's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Amphenol is more favorable than Corning.
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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
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.
In the previous week, Corning had 6 more articles in the media than Amphenol. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Corning and 11 mentions for Amphenol. Amphenol's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Corning's score of 0.61 indicating that Amphenol is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Amphenol has a net margin of 15.87% compared to Corning's net margin of 4.96%. Amphenol's return on equity of 23.85% beat Corning'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 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.
Summary
Amphenol beats Corning on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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