Impinj (NASDAQ:PI – Get Free Report) and NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ:NXPI – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Volatility and Risk
Impinj has a beta of 1.92, indicating that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NXP Semiconductors has a beta of 1.79, indicating that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Impinj and NXP Semiconductors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Impinj | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2.50 |
| NXP Semiconductors | 1 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 2.60 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
90.5% of NXP Semiconductors shares are held by institutional investors. 6.8% of Impinj shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of NXP Semiconductors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Impinj and NXP Semiconductors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Impinj | -7.26% | 5.23% | 2.09% |
| NXP Semiconductors | 22.56% | 27.83% | 11.07% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Impinj and NXP Semiconductors”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Impinj | $371.52 million | 12.45 | -$10.85 million | ($0.92) | -164.52 |
| NXP Semiconductors | $12.27 billion | 4.71 | $2.02 billion | $11.72 | 19.55 |
NXP Semiconductors has higher revenue and earnings than Impinj. Impinj is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NXP Semiconductors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
NXP Semiconductors beats Impinj on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Impinj
Impinj, Inc. operates a cloud connectivity platform in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Its platform wirelessly connects items and delivers data about the connected items to business and consumer applications. The company’s platform comprises endpoint ICs, a miniature radios-on-a-chip that attaches to a host item and includes a number to identify the item. Its platform also consists of systems products that consists of reader ICs, readers, and gateways to wirelessly provide power to and communicate bidirectionally with endpoint ICs on host items, as well as to read, write, authenticate, and engage the endpoint ICs on those items; and software and algorithms that enable its partners to solve enterprise business problems, such as retail self-checkout and loss prevention. The company primarily serves retail, supply chain and logistics, automotive, aviation, banking, datacenters, food, healthcare, industrial and manufacturing, linen and uniform tracking, sports, and travel industries through original equipment and device manufacturers, tag service bureaus, systems integrators, value-added resellers, independent software vendors, and other solution partners. Impinj, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors N.V. offers various semiconductor products. The company's product portfolio includes microcontrollers; application processors, including i.MX application processors, and i.MX 8 and 9 family of applications processors; communication processors; wireless connectivity solutions, such as near field communications, ultra-wideband, Bluetooth low-energy, Zigbee, and Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth integrated SoCs; analog and interface devices; radio frequency power amplifiers; and security controllers, as well as semiconductor-based environmental and inertial sensors, including pressure, inertial, magnetic, and gyroscopic sensors. Its products are used in various applications, including automotive, industrial and Internet of Things, mobile, and communication infrastructure. The company markets its products to various original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and distributors. It operates in China, the Netherlands, the United States, Singapore, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and internationally. N.V. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
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