Critical Survey: Atomera (NASDAQ:ATOM) vs. Penguin Solutions (NASDAQ:PENG)

Atomera (NASDAQ:ATOM) and Penguin Solutions (NASDAQ:PENG) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Atomera and Penguin Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atomera	-9,742.17%	-77.91%	-70.64%
Penguin Solutions	10.43%	36.71%	7.95%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Atomera and Penguin Solutions, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Atomera	1	0	0	0	1.00
Penguin Solutions	1	1	7	1	2.80

Penguin Solutions has a consensus target price of $87.50, suggesting a potential upside of 49.88%. Given Penguin Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Penguin Solutions is more favorable than Atomera.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

30.8% of Atomera shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of Atomera shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Penguin Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Atomera and Penguin Solutions”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Atomera	$60,000.00	1,964.01	-$20.17 million	($0.65)	-4.65
Penguin Solutions	$1.73 billion	1.73	$180.62 million	$2.59	22.54

Penguin Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Atomera. Atomera is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Penguin Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Atomera has a beta of 2.03, suggesting that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Penguin Solutions has a beta of 2.86, suggesting that its share price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Penguin Solutions beats Atomera on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Atomera

Atomera Incorporated engages in the developing, commercializing, and licensing proprietary processes and technologies for the semiconductor industry in North America and the Asia Pacific. The company's lead technology is the Mears Silicon Technology, a thin film of reengineered silicon that can be applied as a transistor channel enhancement to CMOS-type transistors. Its customers include foundries, integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, and electronic design automation companies. The company was formerly known as Mears Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Atomera Incorporated in January 2016. Atomera Incorporated was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

About Penguin Solutions

Penguin Solutions, Inc. engages in the designing and development of enterprise solutions worldwide. It operates through three segments: Advanced Computing, Integrated Memory, and Optimized LED. It offers dynamic random access memory modules, solid-state and flash storage, and other advanced integrated 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. The company also provides Penguin Computing that focus on technical computing for core and cloud environments through high-performance computing and AI solutions; and Penguin Edge, an edge computing solution for embedded and wireless applications, such as high-performance products for government, health care, manufacturing, and telecommunications applications. In addition, it 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 solutions to education, energy, financial services, government, hyperscale, and manufacturing markets. Further, the company provides LED chip 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 brands. It 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. The company was formerly known as SMART Global Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Penguin Solutions, Inc. in October 2024. Penguin Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.