SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ:SKYT – Get Free Report) and Amkor Technology (NASDAQ:AMKR – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and risk.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares SkyWater Technology and Amkor Technology”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| SkyWater Technology | $342.27 million | 4.67 | -$6.79 million | $2.58 | 12.78 |
| Amkor Technology | $6.45 billion | 1.92 | $354.01 million | $1.25 | 40.00 |
Profitability
This table compares SkyWater Technology and Amkor Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| SkyWater Technology | 36.36% | -4.96% | -1.05% |
| Amkor Technology | 4.77% | 7.26% | 4.14% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for SkyWater Technology and Amkor Technology, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| SkyWater Technology | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Amkor Technology | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2.45 |
SkyWater Technology presently has a consensus target price of $32.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.91%. Amkor Technology has a consensus target price of $39.14, indicating a potential downside of 21.71%. Given SkyWater Technology’s higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe SkyWater Technology is more favorable than Amkor Technology.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
70.0% of SkyWater Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of Amkor Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.9% of SkyWater Technology shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.9% of Amkor Technology shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Risk and Volatility
SkyWater Technology has a beta of 3.49, indicating that its stock price is 249% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amkor Technology has a beta of 1.99, indicating that its stock price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Amkor Technology beats SkyWater Technology on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About SkyWater Technology
SkyWater Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a pure-play technology foundry that engages in the provision of semiconductor development, manufacturing, and packaging services in the United States. The company offers engineering and process development support services to co-create technologies with customers; and semiconductor manufacturing services for various silicon-based analog and mixed-signal, micro-electromechanical systems, and rad-hard integrated circuits. It serves customers operating in the computation, aerospace and defense, automotive, bio-health, consumer, and industrial sectors. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota.
About Amkor Technology
Amkor Technology, Inc. provides outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services in the United States, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers turnkey packaging and test services, including semiconductor wafer bump, wafer probe, wafer back-grind, package design, packaging, system-level and final test, and drop shipment services; flip chip scale package products for smartphones, tablets, and other mobile consumer electronic devices; flip chip stacked chip scale packages that are used to stack memory digital baseband, and as applications processors in mobile devices; flip-chip ball grid array packages for various networking, storage, computing, automotive, and consumer applications; and memory products for system memory or platform data storage. The company also provides wafer-level CSP packages for power management, transceivers, sensors, wireless charging, codecs, radar, and specialty silicon; wafer-level fan-out packages used in power management, transceivers, radar, and specialty silicon; silicon wafer integrated fan-out technology that replaces a laminate substrate with a thinner structure; leadframe packages for electronic devices and mixed-signal applications; and substrate-based wirebond packages used to connect a die to a substrate. In addition, it offers micro-electro-mechanical systems packages that are miniaturized mechanical and electromechanical devices; and advanced system-in-package modules used in radio frequency and front end modules, basebands, connectivity, fingerprint sensors, display and touch screen drivers, sensors and MEMS, and NAND memory and solid-state drives. Further, the company provides wafer, package, and system level test services, as well as burn-in test and test development services. It serves integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies, original equipment manufacturers, and contract foundries. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.
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