Reviewing SUMCO (OTCMKTS:SUOPY) and Screen (OTCMKTS:DINRF)

SUMCO (OTCMKTS:SUOPY) and Screen (OTCMKTS:DINRF) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares SUMCO and Screen”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SUMCO	$2.74 billion	1.72	-$78.72 million	($0.45)	-59.93
Screen	$4.11 billion	1.60	$656.49 million	$5.92	10.93

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for SUMCO and Screen, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SUMCO	0	1	0	1	3.00
Screen	1	0	0	0	1.00

Risk and Volatility

SUMCO has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Screen has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

0.0% of SUMCO shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares SUMCO and Screen’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SUMCO	-2.82%	-1.76%	-1.00%
Screen	14.32%	19.03%	12.23%

Summary

Screen beats SUMCO on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SUMCO

Sumco Corporation manufactures and sells silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry in Japan, the United States, China, Taiwan, Korea, and internationally. It provides monocrystalline ingots, as well as polished, annealed, epitaxial, junction isolated, silicon-on-insulator, and reclaimed polished wafers. The company was formerly known as Sumitomo Mitsubishi Silicon Corp. and changed its name to Sumco Corporation in August 2005. Sumco Corporation was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

About Screen

SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, sells, and maintains semiconductor production equipment in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China, the United States, Europe, and internationally. It operates in four segments: Semiconductor Production Equipment Business, Graphic Arts Equipment Business, Display Production Equipment and Coater Business, and PCB-Related Equipment Business. The company offers coat/develop trackers, wafer cleaning systems, annealing systems, measurement systems, inspection systems, and advanced packaging lithography equipment. It also provides coater systems, vacuum film deposition equipment, wet processors, dryers, heaters, exposures, and laminators/de-laminators. In addition, the company offers direct imaging systems, automatic optical inspection systems, automatic optical photomask inspection systems, and defect verification and repair systems; automatic final visual inspection systems; and setup stations and defect tabulation software. Further, it provides high-speed inkjet, label, wide format, CTP, network support, Hiragino font, and other workflow solutions; offset printing, digital book, manual, direct mail, transpromo, label production, package printing, display, and signage solutions; and artificial intelligence, text mining, augmented reality, image analysis, and congestion analysis solutions. Additionally, the company offers biosciences equipment; compact inkjet printing systems for tablets, UV inkjet printing systems for aluminum rolls, and inkjet printing systems for tablets; in-vehicle components for inspection and measurement; and lithium-ion rechargeable batteries and fuel cells. It also undertakes contract manufacturing and support, and intellectual property services related operations. The company was formerly known as Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. and changed its name to SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. in October 2014. SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.