ALTR vs. MPWR, MCHP, FSLR, SWKS, MTSI, LSCC, RMBS, CRUS, SLAB, and POWI
Should you be buying Altair Engineering stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Altair Engineering include Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR), Microchip Technology (MCHP), First Solar (FSLR), Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), MACOM Technology Solutions (MTSI), Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), Rambus (RMBS), Cirrus Logic (CRUS), Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), and Power Integrations (POWI). These companies are all part of the "semiconductors" industry.
Altair Engineering vs.
Altair Engineering (NASDAQ:ALTR) and Monolithic Power Systems (NASDAQ:MPWR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Altair Engineering currently has a consensus target price of $100.71, suggesting a potential downside of 9.90%. Monolithic Power Systems has a consensus target price of $866.17, suggesting a potential upside of 31.02%. Given Monolithic Power Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Monolithic Power Systems is more favorable than Altair Engineering.
Monolithic Power Systems has higher revenue and earnings than Altair Engineering. Monolithic Power Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Altair Engineering, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Monolithic Power Systems received 174 more outperform votes than Altair Engineering when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.43% of users gave Monolithic Power Systems an outperform vote while only 58.05% of users gave Altair Engineering an outperform vote.
63.4% of Altair Engineering shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Monolithic Power Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 21.8% of Altair Engineering shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Monolithic Power Systems shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Monolithic Power Systems has a net margin of 80.95% compared to Altair Engineering's net margin of 5.10%. Monolithic Power Systems' return on equity of 20.36% beat Altair Engineering's return on equity.
Altair Engineering has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monolithic Power Systems has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Monolithic Power Systems had 34 more articles in the media than Altair Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Monolithic Power Systems and 9 mentions for Altair Engineering. Monolithic Power Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Altair Engineering's score of 0.32 indicating that Monolithic Power Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Monolithic Power Systems beats Altair Engineering on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ALTR) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
