Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL – Get Free Report) and Veeco Instruments (NASDAQ:VECO – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Marvell Technology and Veeco Instruments, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Marvell Technology | 0 | 7 | 29 | 3 | 2.90 |
| Veeco Instruments | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.17 |
Marvell Technology currently has a consensus price target of $270.47, indicating a potential upside of 10.74%. Veeco Instruments has a consensus price target of $49.33, indicating a potential upside of 15.48%. Given Veeco Instruments’ higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Veeco Instruments is more favorable than Marvell Technology.
Risk and Volatility
Profitability
This table compares Marvell Technology and Veeco Instruments’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Marvell Technology | 27.93% | 13.57% | 8.98% |
| Veeco Instruments | 3.40% | 3.52% | 2.32% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
83.5% of Marvell Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Veeco Instruments shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Marvell Technology shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Veeco Instruments shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Marvell Technology and Veeco Instruments”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Marvell Technology | $8.19 billion | 26.14 | $2.67 billion | $3.03 | 80.61 |
| Veeco Instruments | $664.29 million | 3.93 | $35.39 million | $0.36 | 118.67 |
Marvell Technology has higher revenue and earnings than Veeco Instruments. Marvell Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Veeco Instruments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Marvell Technology beats Veeco Instruments on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Marvell Technology
Marvell Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, spanning the data center core to network edge. The company develops and scales complex System-on-a-Chip architectures, integrating analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing functionality. It offers a portfolio of Ethernet solutions, including controllers, network adapters, physical transceivers, and switches; single or multiple core processors; and custom application specific integrated circuits. The company also provides electro-optical products, including pulse amplitude modulations, coherent digital signal processors, laser drivers, trans-impedance amplifiers, silicon photonics, and data center interconnect solutions; fibre channel products comprising host bus adapters and controllers; storage controllers for hard disk drives and solid-state-drives; and host system interfaces, including serial attached SCSI, serial advanced technology attachment, peripheral component interconnect express, non-volatile memory express (NVMe), and NVMe over fabrics. It has operations in the United States, Argentina, China, India, Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Marvell Technology, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
About Veeco Instruments
Veeco Instruments Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports semiconductor and thin film process equipment primarily to make electronic devices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, China, Rest of the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company offers laser annealing, ion beam deposition and etch, metal organic chemical vapor deposition, single wafer wet processing and surface preparation, molecular beam epitaxy, advanced packaging lithography, atomic layer deposition, and other deposition systems. Its process equipment systems are used in the production of a range of microelectronic components, including logic, dynamic random-access memory, photonics devices, power electronics, radio frequency filters and amplifiers, magnetic heads for hard disk drives, and other semiconductor devices. In addition, the company markets and sells its products to integrated device manufacturers and foundries; outsourced semiconductor assembly and test companies; and hard disk drive and photonics manufacturers, as well as research centers and universities. Veeco Instruments Inc. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Plainview, New York.
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