Analyzing Chipmos Technologies (IMOS) and Its Rivals

Chipmos Technologies (NASDAQ:IMOS) is one of 221 public companies in the “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Chipmos Technologies to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Chipmos Technologies and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Chipmos Technologies	0	1	0	0	2.00
Chipmos Technologies Competitors	3490	12313	25726	993	2.57

As a group, “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” companies have a potential upside of 44.17%. Given Chipmos Technologies’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chipmos Technologies has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Risk and Volatility

Chipmos Technologies has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chipmos Technologies’ competitors have a beta of 2.80, indicating that their average share price is 180% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Chipmos Technologies and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Chipmos Technologies	8.30%	9.19%	4.94%
Chipmos Technologies Competitors	-1,280.34%	-126.29%	-3.97%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

7.4% of Chipmos Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.8% of shares of all “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 22.7% of Chipmos Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of shares of all “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” companies are owned by 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.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Chipmos Technologies and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Chipmos Technologies	$762.90 million	$17.55 million	25.12
Chipmos Technologies Competitors	$7.33 billion	$2.49 billion	8.30

Chipmos Technologies’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Chipmos Technologies. Chipmos Technologies is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Chipmos Technologies competitors beat Chipmos Technologies on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About Chipmos Technologies

ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. engages in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of high-integration and high-precision integrated circuits, and related assembly and testing services in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and internationally. It operates through Testing; Assembly; Testing and Assembly for LCD, OLED and Other Display Panel Driver Semiconductors; Bumping; and Others segments. The company provides a range of back-end assembly and testing services, including engineering test, wafer probing, and final test of memory and logic/mixed-signal semiconductors, as well as leadframe-based and organic substrate-based package assembly services for memory and logic/mixed-signal semiconductors; and gold bumping, and testing and assembly services for LCD, OLED, and other panel display driver semiconductors. Its semiconductors are used in personal computers; office automation and consumer electronics; and communications equipment applications. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Hsinchu City, Taiwan.