POET Technologies (NASDAQ:POET – Get Rating) is one of 163 public companies in the “Semiconductors & related devices” industry, but how does it compare to its rivals? We will compare POET Technologies to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and valuation.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for POET Technologies and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| POET Technologies | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
| POET Technologies Competitors | 1613 | 7526 | 15879 | 564 | 2.60 |
POET Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 112.31%. As a group, “Semiconductors & related devices” companies have a potential upside of 53.52%. Given POET Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe POET Technologies is more favorable than its rivals.
Risk & Volatility
POET Technologies has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, POET Technologies’ rivals have a beta of 1.19, meaning that their average share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
58.0% of shares of all “Semiconductors & related devices” companies are held by institutional investors. 8.7% 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 is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares POET Technologies and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| POET Technologies | N/A | -73.44% | -66.88% |
| POET Technologies Competitors | -21.07% | -7.49% | 2.21% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares POET Technologies and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| POET Technologies | $210,000.00 | -$15.67 million | -11.51 |
| POET Technologies Competitors | $3.69 billion | $759.07 million | -2,951.66 |
POET Technologies’ rivals have higher revenue and earnings than POET Technologies. POET Technologies is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.
Summary
POET Technologies rivals beat POET Technologies on 8 of the 13 factors compared.
POET Technologies Company Profile (Get Rating)
POET Technologies Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells discrete and integrated opto-electronic solutions in Canada, the United States, and Singapore. It offers integration solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer, a novel platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques and packaging methods. It also develops photonic integrated components. The company serves the data center, telecommunications, Internet of things and industrial sensing, automotive LIDAR, optical coherence tomography for medical devices, virtual reality systems markets. The company was formerly known as Opel Technologies Inc. and changed its name to POET Technologies Inc. in June 2013. POET Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 1972 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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