Posted by admin on Jul 25th, 2022

EMCORE (NASDAQ:EMKR – Get Rating) and Navitas Semiconductor (NASDAQ:NVTS – Get Rating) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.

This is a summary of recent recommendations for EMCORE and Navitas Semiconductor, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

EMCORE currently has a consensus price target of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 33.14%. Navitas Semiconductor has a consensus price target of $14.14, suggesting a potential upside of 197.74%. Given Navitas Semiconductor’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Navitas Semiconductor is more favorable than EMCORE.

73.6% of EMCORE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.4% of Navitas Semiconductor shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of EMCORE shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

EMCORE has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navitas Semiconductor has a beta of 2.79, indicating that its stock price is 179% more volatile than the S&P 500.

This table compares EMCORE and Navitas Semiconductor’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

This table compares EMCORE and Navitas Semiconductor’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

EMCORE has higher revenue and earnings than Navitas Semiconductor.

EMCORE beats Navitas Semiconductor on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

EMCORE Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides advanced mixed-signal optics products in the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Aerospace and Defense, and Broadband. The company offers navigation system and inertial sensing products, such as fiber optic gyros products that includes gyroscopes, inertial measurement units (IMU), and inertial navigation systems (INS), as well as QMEMS gyroscopes, accelerometers, IMUs, and INS products primarily for the aerospace and defense markets; and defense optoelectronics comprising optiva platform fiber optic transport systems and erbium doped fiber amplifiers, as well as ruggedized microwave flange-mount transmitters, receivers, and optical delay line products. It also provides cable TV (CATV) lasers and transmitters that are used in forward-and return-path broadband, subassembly components, analog fiber-optic transmitters, quadrature amplitude modulation transmitters, and CATV fiber amplifiers. In addition, the company offers high-power gain chips products, photodiode products, and GPON fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) and data center chip products for the telecommunication markets; and lasers, receivers, and photodetector components for wireless, distributed sensing, and light detecting and ranging applications. It serves CATV, optical sensing, telecom, data center, and navigation and defense optoelectronics markets. The company sells its products through direct sales force, application engineers, third party sales representatives, and distributors. EMCORE Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Alhambra, California.

Navitas Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops, and sells gallium nitride (GaN) power integrated circuits in China, the United States, Taiwan, Korea, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

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