AEIS vs. LPL, PI, VICR, CAMT, TSEM, BOX, ACIW, QTWO, BL, and IRDM
Should you be buying Advanced Energy Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Advanced Energy Industries include LG Display (LPL), Impinj (PI), Vicor (VICR), Camtek (CAMT), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), BOX (BOX), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Q2 (QTWO), BlackLine (BL), and Iridium Communications (IRDM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
LG Display (NYSE:LPL) and Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ:AEIS) are both mid-cap computer and technology 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.
Advanced Energy Industries has a net margin of 6.58% compared to Advanced Energy Industries' net margin of -12.93%. LG Display's return on equity of 11.65% beat Advanced Energy Industries' return on equity.
99.7% of Advanced Energy Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of LG Display shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Advanced Energy Industries 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.
Advanced Energy Industries received 86 more outperform votes than LG Display when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.81% of users gave Advanced Energy Industries an outperform vote while only 56.18% of users gave LG Display an outperform vote.
Advanced Energy Industries has a consensus price target of $108.86, suggesting a potential upside of 3.06%. Given LG Display's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Advanced Energy Industries is more favorable than LG Display.
LG Display has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advanced Energy Industries has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Advanced Energy Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LG Display. LG Display 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.
In the previous week, LG Display had 1 more articles in the media than Advanced Energy Industries. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for LG Display and 4 mentions for Advanced Energy Industries. LG Display's average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat Advanced Energy Industries' score of 0.32 indicating that Advanced Energy Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Advanced Energy Industries beats LG Display on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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