Vicor (NASDAQ:VICR – Get Free Report) and Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.
Risk & Volatility
Vicor has a beta of 2.33, suggesting that its share price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allient has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
47.5% of Vicor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Allient shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.3% of Vicor shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Allient shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Vicor | 28.98% | 20.21% | 18.26% |
| Allient | 4.25% | 12.47% | 6.37% |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Vicor and Allient”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Vicor | $452.70 million | 33.71 | $118.56 million | $2.99 | 111.99 |
| Allient | $554.48 million | 2.43 | $22.03 million | $1.43 | 55.36 |
Vicor has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Allient. Allient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vicor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Vicor and Allient, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Vicor | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Allient | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2.67 |
Vicor currently has a consensus target price of $228.33, indicating a potential downside of 31.81%. Allient has a consensus target price of $77.33, indicating a potential downside of 2.31%. Given Allient’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Allient is more favorable than Vicor.
Summary
Vicor beats Allient on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Vicor
Vicor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets modular power components and power systems for converting electrical power in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company offers a range of brick-format DC-DC converters; complementary components provide AC line rectification, input filtering, power factor correction, and transient protection; and input and output voltage, and output power products, as well as electrical and mechanical accessories. It also design, sells, and service custom power systems solutions. The company serves independent manufacturers of electronic devices, original equipment manufacturers, and their contract manufacturers in the aerospace and aviation, defense electronics, satellites, factory automation, instrumentation, test equipment, transportation, telecommunications and networking infrastructure and vehicles, and transportation markets. Vicor Corporation was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.
About Allient
Allient Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells precision and specialty controlled motion components and systems for various industries in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It offers brush and brushless DC motors, brushless servo and torque motors, coreless DC motors, integrated brushless motor-drives, gearmotors, gearing, modular digital servo drives, motion controllers, optical encoders, active and passive filters, input/output modules, industrial communications gateways, light-weighting technologies, and other controlled motion-related products, as well as nano precision positioning systems, servo control systems, and digital servo amplifiers and drives. The company sells its products to end customers and original equipment manufacturers in vehicle, medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets through direct sales force, authorized manufacturers’ representatives, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Allied Motion Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Allient Inc. in August 2023. Allient Inc. was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Amherst, New York.
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