Comparing Nano Labs (NASDAQ:NA) & Diodes (NASDAQ:DIOD)

Diodes (NASDAQ:DIOD) and Nano Labs (NASDAQ:NA) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Profitability

This table compares Diodes and Nano Labs’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Diodes	4.72%	3.90%	3.04%
Nano Labs	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Diodes and Nano Labs”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Diodes	$1.66 billion	1.42	$227.18 million	$1.32	38.62
Nano Labs	$50.81 million	0.72	-$35.70 million	N/A	N/A

Diodes has higher revenue and earnings than Nano Labs.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

99.2% of Diodes shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.7% of Nano Labs shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Diodes shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Diodes has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nano Labs has a beta of 2.61, meaning that its share price is 161% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Diodes and Nano Labs, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Diodes	0	2	1	0	2.33
Nano Labs	0	0	0	0	0.00

Diodes currently has a consensus target price of $69.67, indicating a potential upside of 36.65%. Given Diodes’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Diodes is more favorable than Nano Labs.

Summary

Diodes beats Nano Labs on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Diodes

Diodes Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and supplies application-specific standard products in the broad discrete, logic, analog, and mixed-signal semiconductor markets worldwide. The company offers discrete semiconductor products, such as MOSFETs, SiC MOSFETs; data line protection, power line protection, thyristers, USB Type-C protection, and transient voltage suppressors; Schottky, small signal switching, Zener, and SiC diodes; bridges, super barrier, Schottky, Schottky bridge, and fast/ultra-fast rectifiers; and bipolar, avalanche, gate driver, and pre-bias transistors. It also provides analog products, including power management devices comprising AC-DC and DC-DC converters, USB power switches, low dropout, photocoupler and linear voltage regulators; standard linear devices consisting of operational amplifiers and comparators, current monitors, voltage references, and reset generators; LED lighting drivers; audio amplifiers; and sensor products, such as hall-effect sensors and motor drivers. In addition, the company offers mixed-signal products, such as high speed mux/demux, digital switches, interface, redrivers, universal level shifters/voltage translators, clock ICs and packet switches; standard logic products comprising low-voltage complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and advanced high-speed CMOS devices; ultra-low power CMOS logic; and analog switches; multichip products and co-packaged discrete, analog and mixed-signal silicon in miniature packages; and silicon and silicon epitaxial wafers used in manufacturing frequency control products and contact images sensors. It serves the industrial, automotive, computing, communications, and consumer markets through direct sales, marketing personnel, independent sales representatives, and distributors. The company was incorporated in 1959 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

About Nano Labs

Nano Labs Ltd operates as a fabless integrated circuit design company and product solution provider in the People's Republic of China and internationally. It develops high throughput computing and high-performance computing chips. The company also offers distributed computing and storage solutions, smart network interface cards, and vision computing chips, as well as distributed rendering technology. In addition, it engages in the research and development of software. Its customers include enterprises and individual buyers. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, the People's Republic of China.