QuickLogic (NASDAQ:QUIK – Get Free Report) and ACM Research (NASDAQ:ACMR – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares QuickLogic and ACM Research”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| QuickLogic | $13.77 million | 15.79 | -$14.82 million | ($0.77) | -15.42 |
| ACM Research | $901.31 million | 5.98 | $94.08 million | $2.10 | 39.70 |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for QuickLogic and ACM Research, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| QuickLogic | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.25 |
| ACM Research | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3.00 |
QuickLogic currently has a consensus price target of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 76.92%. ACM Research has a consensus price target of $122.75, indicating a potential upside of 47.22%. Given QuickLogic’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe QuickLogic is more favorable than ACM Research.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
31.5% of QuickLogic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.7% of ACM Research shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of QuickLogic shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.4% of ACM Research shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares QuickLogic and ACM Research’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| QuickLogic | -80.18% | -45.22% | -27.93% |
| ACM Research | 14.48% | 4.08% | 2.80% |
Risk & Volatility
QuickLogic has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACM Research has a beta of 2.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ACM Research beats QuickLogic on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About QuickLogic
QuickLogic Corporation operates as a fabless semiconductor company in the United States. The company offers embedded FPGA intellectual property, low power, multicore semiconductor system-on-chips, discrete FPGAs, and AI software; and end-to-end artificial intelligence/machine learning solution with accurate sensor algorithms using AI technology. It provides various platforms, such as software tools and eFPGA IP enables the adoption of AI, voice, and sensor processing across aerospace, and defense, consumer/industrial IOT, and consumer electronics markets. In addition, the company engages in the eFPGA IP Licensing business consisting of development and integration of eFPGA technology into custom semiconductor solutions. Further, the company offers silicon products, such as EOS, QuickAI, ArcticLink III, PolarPro 3, PolarPro II, PolarPro, and Eclipse II products; and PASIC 3 and QuickRAM, as well as programming hardware and design software services. The company markets and sells its products to defense industrial base contractors, U.S. government entities, system OEMs, and fabless semiconductor companies through a network of sales managers and distributors in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. It has a strategic partnership with YorChip to develop low-power unified chiplet interconnect express FPGA chiplets. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
About ACM Research
ACM Research, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells single-wafer wet cleaning equipment for enhancing the manufacturing process and yield for integrated chips worldwide. It offers space alternated phase shift technology for flat and patterned wafer surfaces, which employs alternating phases of megasonic waves to deliver megasonic energy in a uniform manner on a microscopic level; timely energized bubble oscillation technology for patterned wafer surfaces at advanced process nodes, which provides cleaning for 2D and 3D patterned wafers; Tahoe technology for delivering cleaning performance using less sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide; and electro-chemical plating technology for advanced metal plating. The company markets and sells its products under the SAPS, TEBO, ULTRA C, ULTRA Fn, Ultra ECP, Ultra ECP map, and Ultra ECP ap trademarks through direct sales force and third-party representatives. ACM Research, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
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