TTMI vs. CTS, BHE, PLXS, ELTK, SANM, KE, NNDM, CLS, PLAB, and GRND
Should you be buying TTM Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TTM Technologies include CTS (CTS), Benchmark Electronics (BHE), Plexus (PLXS), Eltek (ELTK), Sanmina (SANM), Kimball Electronics (KE), Nano Dimension (NNDM), Celestica (CLS), Photronics (PLAB), and Grindr (GRND). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
TTM Technologies (NASDAQ:TTMI) and CTS (NYSE:CTS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
TTM Technologies has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CTS has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TTM Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $18.17, suggesting a potential downside of 0.73%. CTS has a consensus price target of $43.67, suggesting a potential downside of 16.90%. Given TTM Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TTM Technologies is more favorable than CTS.
In the previous week, CTS had 2 more articles in the media than TTM Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for CTS and 9 mentions for TTM Technologies. TTM Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat CTS's score of 0.18 indicating that TTM Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CTS has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TTM Technologies. TTM Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CTS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TTM Technologies received 156 more outperform votes than CTS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.29% of users gave TTM Technologies an outperform vote while only 66.60% of users gave CTS an outperform vote.
CTS has a net margin of 10.06% compared to TTM Technologies' net margin of -0.11%. CTS's return on equity of 12.39% beat TTM Technologies' return on equity.
95.8% of TTM Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.9% of CTS shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of TTM Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of CTS shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
CTS beats TTM Technologies on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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