UCTT vs. AEIS, FORM, ACLS, PLAB, VECO, PDFS, COHU, XPER, AXTI, and RBCN
Should you be buying Ultra Clean stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ultra Clean include Advanced Energy Industries (AEIS), FormFactor (FORM), Axcelis Technologies (ACLS), Photronics (PLAB), Veeco Instruments (VECO), PDF Solutions (PDFS), Cohu (COHU), Xperi (XPER), AXT (AXTI), and Rubicon Technology (RBCN). These companies are all part of the "semiconductor equipment" industry.
Ultra Clean vs.
Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ:AEIS) and Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
99.7% of Advanced Energy Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Ultra Clean shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Advanced Energy Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Ultra Clean 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.
Advanced Energy Industries presently has a consensus target price of $126.56, indicating a potential upside of 32.67%. Ultra Clean has a consensus target price of $56.75, indicating a potential upside of 153.38%. Given Ultra Clean's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ultra Clean is more favorable than Advanced Energy Industries.
In the previous week, Ultra Clean had 17 more articles in the media than Advanced Energy Industries. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Ultra Clean and 11 mentions for Advanced Energy Industries. Advanced Energy Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Ultra Clean's score of 0.27 indicating that Advanced Energy Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Advanced Energy Industries has a net margin of 3.66% compared to Ultra Clean's net margin of 0.18%. Advanced Energy Industries' return on equity of 8.90% beat Ultra Clean's return on equity.
Advanced Energy Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ultra Clean. Ultra Clean is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advanced Energy Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Advanced Energy Industries has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ultra Clean has a beta of 2.2, indicating that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ultra Clean received 5 more outperform votes than Advanced Energy Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.95% of users gave Ultra Clean an outperform vote while only 63.52% of users gave Advanced Energy Industries an outperform vote.
Summary
Advanced Energy Industries beats Ultra Clean on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:UCTT) was last updated on 3/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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