PENG (NASDAQ:PENG) versus SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ:SKYT) Head-To-Head Analysis

SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ:SKYT) and PENG (NASDAQ:PENG) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares SkyWater Technology and PENG”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SkyWater Technology	$323.74 million	1.29	-$30.76 million	($0.35)	-25.14
PENG	$1.17 billion	0.78	-$52.47 million	($1.00)	-17.14

SkyWater Technology has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PENG. SkyWater Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PENG, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

SkyWater Technology has a beta of 3.92, suggesting that its share price is 292% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PENG has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

70.0% of SkyWater Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 42.5% of SkyWater Technology shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of PENG shares are held by 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for SkyWater Technology and PENG, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SkyWater Technology	0	0	4	0	3.00
PENG	0	0	4	0	3.00

SkyWater Technology currently has a consensus price target of $12.75, indicating a potential upside of 44.89%. PENG has a consensus price target of $23.75, indicating a potential upside of 38.56%. Given SkyWater Technology’s higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe SkyWater Technology is more favorable than PENG.

Profitability

This table compares SkyWater Technology and PENG’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SkyWater Technology	-4.75%	-12.90%	-2.48%
PENG	-4.48%	8.05%	2.14%

Summary

SkyWater Technology beats PENG on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SkyWater Technology

SkyWater Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a pure-play technology foundry that engages in the provision of semiconductor development, manufacturing, and packaging services in the United States. The company offers engineering and process development support services to co-create technologies with customers; and semiconductor manufacturing services for various silicon-based analog and mixed-signal, micro-electromechanical systems, and rad-hard integrated circuits. It serves customers operating in the computation, aerospace and defense, automotive, bio-health, consumer, and industrial sectors. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota.

About PENG

SMART Global Holdings, Inc., a memory-focused company, engages in the designing and development of enterprise solutions in the United States, China, Europe, and internationally. It operates through Memory Solutions, Intelligent Platform Solutions, and LED Solutions segments. The company offers dynamic random access memory modules, solid-state and flash storage, and other advanced memory solutions for networking and telecom, data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications; and supply chain services including procurement, logistics, inventory management, temporary warehousing, programming, kitting, and packaging services. It also provides Penguin Computing that focus on technical computing for core and cloud environments through HPC and AI solutions; and Penguin Edge, an edge computing solution for embedded and wireless applications including high-performance products for government, health care, industrial, and telecommunications applications. In addition, the company offers Stratus, which provides simplified, protected, and autonomous fault tolerant computing solutions in the data center and at the Edge through hardware and software services; and leading-edge solutions to education, energy, financial services, government, hyperscale, and manufacturing markets. Further, it provides LED-based products comprising blue and green LED chips based on gallium nitride, and related materials under Cree LED brand; and surface mount devices under the Cree LED XLamp and J Series brand. The company sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers, enterprise, government and other end customers through direct sales force, e-commerce, customer service representatives, on-site field application engineers, independent sales representatives, distributors, integrators, and resellers. SMART Global Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.