PENG (NASDAQ:PENG – Get Free Report) is one of 174 publicly-traded companies in the “Semiconductors & related devices” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare PENG to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares PENG and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
PENG | $1.17 billion | -$52.47 million | -17.47 |
PENG Competitors | $5.79 billion | $806.07 million | 19.04 |
PENG’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than PENG. PENG is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.
Profitability
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
PENG | -4.48% | 8.05% | 2.14% |
PENG Competitors | -156.57% | -41.40% | -7.01% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
56.8% of shares of all “Semiconductors & related devices” companies are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of PENG shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of shares of all “Semiconductors & related devices” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility and Risk
PENG has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PENG’s peers have a beta of 1.72, indicating that their average stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for PENG and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
PENG | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.00 |
PENG Competitors | 2503 | 9789 | 19220 | 681 | 2.56 |
PENG currently has a consensus target price of $23.75, suggesting a potential upside of 35.95%. As a group, “Semiconductors & related devices” companies have a potential upside of 649.52%. Given PENG’s peers higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PENG has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.
Summary
PENG peers beat PENG on 8 of the 13 factors compared.
PENG Company Profile
SMART Global Holdings, Inc., a memory-focused company, engages in the designing and development of enterprise solutions in the United States, China, Europe, and internationally. It operates through Memory Solutions, Intelligent Platform Solutions, and LED Solutions segments. The company offers dynamic random access memory modules, solid-state and flash storage, and other advanced memory solutions for networking and telecom, data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications; and supply chain services including procurement, logistics, inventory management, temporary warehousing, programming, kitting, and packaging services. It also provides Penguin Computing that focus on technical computing for core and cloud environments through HPC and AI solutions; and Penguin Edge, an edge computing solution for embedded and wireless applications including high-performance products for government, health care, industrial, and telecommunications applications. In addition, the company offers Stratus, which provides simplified, protected, and autonomous fault tolerant computing solutions in the data center and at the Edge through hardware and software services; and leading-edge solutions to education, energy, financial services, government, hyperscale, and manufacturing markets. Further, it provides LED-based products comprising blue and green LED chips based on gallium nitride, and related materials under Cree LED brand; and surface mount devices under the Cree LED XLamp and J Series brand. The company sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers, enterprise, government and other end customers through direct sales force, e-commerce, customer service representatives, on-site field application engineers, independent sales representatives, distributors, integrators, and resellers. SMART Global Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.
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