Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ:LSCC – Get Free Report) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC – Get Free Report) are both large-cap technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and profitability.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Lattice Semiconductor and Intel, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Lattice Semiconductor | 0 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 2.93 |
| Intel | 3 | 28 | 19 | 1 | 2.35 |
Lattice Semiconductor currently has a consensus price target of $147.46, suggesting a potential upside of 27.73%. Intel has a consensus price target of $107.80, suggesting a potential upside of 1.47%. Given Lattice Semiconductor’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lattice Semiconductor is more favorable than Intel.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Lattice Semiconductor | $523.26 million | 30.23 | $3.08 million | $0.26 | 444.04 |
| Intel | $57.03 billion | 9.40 | -$267.00 million | ($2.11) | -50.35 |
Lattice Semiconductor has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Intel. Intel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lattice Semiconductor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
98.1% of Lattice Semiconductor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.5% of Intel shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Lattice Semiconductor shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Intel shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Lattice Semiconductor and Intel’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Lattice Semiconductor | 5.58% | 10.92% | 8.94% |
| Intel | -19.79% | 2.62% | 1.50% |
Volatility & Risk
Lattice Semiconductor has a beta of 1.79, indicating that its share price is 79% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intel has a beta of 2.22, indicating that its share price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lattice Semiconductor beats Intel on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Lattice Semiconductor
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops and sells semiconductor products in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The company offers field programmable gate arrays that consist of four product families, including the Lattice Certus and ECP, Mach, iCE, and CrossLink. It also provides video connectivity application specific standard products. In addition, the company licenses its technology portfolio through standard IP and IP core licensing, patent monetization, and IP services. It sells its products directly to customers, and indirectly through a network of independent manufacturers' representatives and independent distributors. The company primarily serves original equipment manufacturers in the communications and computing, consumer, and industrial, and automotive markets. Lattice Semiconductor Corporation was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.
About Intel
Intel Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells computing and related products and services worldwide. It operates through Client Computing Group, Data Center and AI, Network and Edge, Mobileye, and Intel Foundry Services segments. The company's products portfolio comprises central processing units and chipsets, system-on-chips (SoCs), and multichip packages; mobile and desktop processors; hardware products comprising graphics processing units (GPUs), domain-specific accelerators, and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); and memory and storage, connectivity and networking, and other semiconductor products. It also offers silicon devices and software products; and optimization solutions for workloads, such as AI, cryptography, security, storage, networking, and leverages various features supporting diverse compute environments. In addition, the company develops and deploys advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and autonomous driving technologies and solutions; and provides advanced process technologies backed by an ecosystem of IP, EDA, and design services, as well as systems of chips, including advanced packaging technologies, software and accelerate bring-up, and integration of chips and driving standards. Further, it delivers and deploys intelligent edge platforms that allow developers to achieve agility and drive automation using AI for efficient operations with data integrity, as well as provides hardware and software platforms, tools, and ecosystem partnerships for digital transformation from the cloud to edge. The company serves original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, cloud service providers, and other manufacturers and service providers. It has a strategic agreement with Synopsys, Inc. to develop EDA and IP solutions; and ARM that enables chip designers to build optimized compute SoCs on the Intel 18A process. Intel Corporation was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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