POET vs. DQ, JKS, AAOI, PENG, COMM, AIOT, ICHR, BELFA, SEDG, and NSSC
Should you be buying POET Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of POET Technologies include Daqo New Energy (DQ), JinkoSolar (JKS), Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI), Penguin Solutions (PENG), CommScope (COMM), Powerfleet (AIOT), Ichor (ICHR), Bel Fuse (BELFA), SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG), and Napco Security Technologies (NSSC). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.
POET Technologies vs.
Daqo New Energy (NYSE:DQ) and POET Technologies (NASDAQ:POET) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
Daqo New Energy has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, POET Technologies has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
POET Technologies has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Daqo New Energy's net margin of -9.16%. Daqo New Energy's return on equity of -1.90% beat POET Technologies' return on equity.
47.2% of Daqo New Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.0% of POET Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 24.3% of Daqo New Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of POET Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Daqo New Energy has higher revenue and earnings than POET Technologies. Daqo New Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than POET Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Daqo New Energy received 348 more outperform votes than POET Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave POET Technologies an outperform vote while only 66.05% of users gave Daqo New Energy an outperform vote.
Daqo New Energy currently has a consensus target price of $22.26, suggesting a potential upside of 2.41%. POET Technologies has a consensus target price of $6.25, suggesting a potential upside of 42.05%. Given POET Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe POET Technologies is more favorable than Daqo New Energy.
In the previous week, Daqo New Energy had 3 more articles in the media than POET Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Daqo New Energy and 1 mentions for POET Technologies. Daqo New Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat POET Technologies' score of 0.28 indicating that Daqo New Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Daqo New Energy beats POET Technologies on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:POET) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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