TSEM vs. SLAB, IPGP, FORM, POWI, SYNA, DIOD, WOLF, SITM, KLIC, and ALGM
Should you be buying Tower Semiconductor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tower Semiconductor include Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), IPG Photonics (IPGP), FormFactor (FORM), Power Integrations (POWI), Synaptics (SYNA), Diodes (DIOD), Wolfspeed (WOLF), SiTime (SITM), Kulicke and Soffa Industries (KLIC), and Allegro MicroSystems (ALGM). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors & related devices" industry.
Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ:TSEM) and Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ:SLAB) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Tower Semiconductor currently has a consensus target price of $46.33, indicating a potential upside of 26.21%. Silicon Laboratories has a consensus target price of $135.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.69%. Given Tower Semiconductor's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Tower Semiconductor is more favorable than Silicon Laboratories.
Silicon Laboratories received 292 more outperform votes than Tower Semiconductor when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.58% of users gave Tower Semiconductor an outperform vote while only 68.48% of users gave Silicon Laboratories an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Silicon Laboratories had 1 more articles in the media than Tower Semiconductor. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Silicon Laboratories and 4 mentions for Tower Semiconductor. Silicon Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Tower Semiconductor's score of 0.68 indicating that Silicon Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tower Semiconductor has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silicon Laboratories has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.5% of Tower Semiconductor shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Tower Semiconductor shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Silicon Laboratories shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Tower Semiconductor has a net margin of 35.27% compared to Silicon Laboratories' net margin of -16.36%. Tower Semiconductor's return on equity of 8.78% beat Silicon Laboratories' return on equity.
Tower Semiconductor has higher revenue and earnings than Silicon Laboratories. Silicon Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tower Semiconductor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tower Semiconductor beats Silicon Laboratories on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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