Everspin Tech (NASDAQ:MRAM) vs. Analog Devices (NASDAQ:ADI) Head-To-Head Review

Everspin Tech (NASDAQ:MRAM) and Analog Devices (NASDAQ:ADI) are both technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Volatility & Risk

Everspin Tech has a beta of 2.04, indicating that its share price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Analog Devices has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Everspin Tech and Analog Devices”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Everspin Tech	$55.20 million	5.82	-$590,000.00	($0.40)	-32.99
Analog Devices	$11.02 billion	18.38	$2.27 billion	$8.43	49.59

Analog Devices has higher revenue and earnings than Everspin Tech. Everspin Tech is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Analog Devices, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Everspin Tech and Analog Devices’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Everspin Tech	-14.28%	9.67%	7.98%
Analog Devices	29.79%	16.39%	11.49%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Everspin Tech and Analog Devices, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Everspin Tech	1	0	2	0	2.33
Analog Devices	0	3	29	1	2.94

Everspin Tech presently has a consensus price target of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 66.73%. Analog Devices has a consensus price target of $460.55, indicating a potential upside of 10.17%. Given Everspin Tech’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Everspin Tech is more favorable than Analog Devices.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

44.7% of Everspin Tech shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.8% of Analog Devices shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.3% of Everspin Tech shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Analog Devices shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Analog Devices beats Everspin Tech on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Everspin Tech

Everspin Technologies, Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) products in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, Singapore, China, Canada, and internationally. It offers Toggle MRAM, spin-transfer torque MRAM, and tunnel magneto resistance sensor products, as well as foundry services for MRAM products. The company provides its products for applications, including industrial, medical, automotive/transportation, aerospace, and data center markets. It serves original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and original design manufacturers through a direct sales channel, and a network of representatives and distributors. Everspin Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.

About Analog Devices

Analog Devices, Inc. designs, manufactures, tests, and markets integrated circuits (ICs), software, and subsystems products in the United States, rest of North and South America, Europe, Japan, China, and rest of Asia. The company provides data converter products, which translate real-world analog signals into digital data, as well as translates digital data into analog signals; power management and reference products for power conversion, driver monitoring, sequencing, and energy management applications in the automotive, communications, industrial, and consumer markets; and power ICs that include performance, integration, and software design simulation tools for accurate power supply designs. It also offers amplifiers to condition analog signals; and radio frequency and microwave ICs to support cellular infrastructure; and micro-electro-mechanical systems technology solutions, including accelerometers used to sense acceleration, gyroscopes for sense rotation, inertial measurement units to sense multiple degrees of freedom, and broadband switches for radio and instrument systems, as well as isolators. In addition, the company provides digital signal processing and system products for numeric calculations. It serves clients in the industrial, automotive, consumer, instrumentation, aerospace, defense and healthcare, and communications markets through a direct sales force, third-party distributors, and independent sales representatives, as well as online. Analog Devices, Inc. was incorporated in 1965 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts.