IVAC vs. SOTK, ASYS, LICY, PXLW, ELVA, CBAT, CXDO, YIBO, XNET, and BW
Should you be buying Intevac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intevac include Sono-Tek (SOTK), Amtech Systems (ASYS), Li-Cycle (LICY), Pixelworks (PXLW), Electrovaya (ELVA), CBAK Energy Technology (CBAT), Crexendo (CXDO), Planet Image International (YIBO), Xunlei (XNET), and Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (BW). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Sono-Tek (NASDAQ:SOTK) and Intevac (NASDAQ:IVAC) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Sono-Tek has a beta of -0.22, suggesting that its stock price is 122% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intevac has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
47.9% of Sono-Tek shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.3% of Intevac shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of Sono-Tek shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Intevac shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Intevac received 244 more outperform votes than Sono-Tek when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.67% of users gave Sono-Tek an outperform vote while only 61.43% of users gave Intevac an outperform vote.
Sono-Tek has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Intevac. Intevac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sono-Tek, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sono-Tek has a net margin of 7.25% compared to Sono-Tek's net margin of -19.52%. Intevac's return on equity of 8.87% beat Sono-Tek's return on equity.
In the previous week, Intevac had 4 more articles in the media than Sono-Tek. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Intevac and 0 mentions for Sono-Tek. Sono-Tek's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Intevac's score of 0.00 indicating that Intevac is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sono-Tek beats Intevac on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding IVAC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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