Head to Head Review: Veeco Instruments (NASDAQ:VECO) vs. TGI Solar Power Group (OTCMKTS:TSPG)

TGI Solar Power Group (OTCMKTS:TSPG) and Veeco Instruments (NASDAQ:VECO) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares TGI Solar Power Group and Veeco Instruments”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TGI Solar Power Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Veeco Instruments	$655.34 million	3.97	$35.39 million	$0.36	118.08

Veeco Instruments has higher revenue and earnings than TGI Solar Power Group.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

98.5% of Veeco Instruments shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Veeco Instruments shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares TGI Solar Power Group and Veeco Instruments’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TGI Solar Power Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Veeco Instruments	3.40%	3.52%	2.32%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for TGI Solar Power Group and Veeco Instruments, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TGI Solar Power Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Veeco Instruments	0	5	1	0	2.17

Veeco Instruments has a consensus target price of $49.33, suggesting a potential upside of 16.05%. Given Veeco Instruments’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Veeco Instruments is more favorable than TGI Solar Power Group.

Summary

Veeco Instruments beats TGI Solar Power Group on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About TGI Solar Power Group

TGI Solar Power Group Inc. intends to provide clients with management, tools, and resources to deliver interactive, real-time, on demand staffing for full time and project based personnel. The company was formerly known as TenthGate International, Inc. and changed its name to TGI Solar Power Group Inc. in June 2008. TGI Solar Power Group Inc. was founded in 1967 and is based in Ewing, New Jersey.

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.