Ascent Solar Technologies (NASDAQ:ASTI – Get Free Report) and Diodes (NASDAQ:DIOD – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends and earnings.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Ascent Solar Technologies and Diodes, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Ascent Solar Technologies | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Diodes | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2.71 |
Ascent Solar Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,173.89%. Diodes has a consensus price target of $130.83, indicating a potential upside of 63.28%. Given Ascent Solar Technologies’ higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Ascent Solar Technologies is more favorable than Diodes.
Risk and Volatility
Ascent Solar Technologies has a beta of 1.76, suggesting that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diodes has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
10.6% of Ascent Solar Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.2% of Diodes shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Ascent Solar Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Diodes shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Ascent Solar Technologies and Diodes’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Ascent Solar Technologies | -4,217.19% | -85.21% | -64.83% |
| Diodes | 5.27% | 4.33% | 3.41% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Ascent Solar Technologies and Diodes”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Ascent Solar Technologies | $80,000.00 | 192.72 | -$7.83 million | ($1.48) | -1.06 |
| Diodes | $1.48 billion | 2.49 | $66.14 million | $1.85 | 43.31 |
Diodes has higher revenue and earnings than Ascent Solar Technologies. Ascent Solar Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diodes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Diodes beats Ascent Solar Technologies on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Ascent Solar Technologies
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a solar technology company, engages in the manufacture and sale of photovoltaic solar modules in the United States. The company markets and sells its products through OEMs, system integrators, distributors, retailers, and value-added resellers. It serves agrivoltaics, aerospace, satellites, near earth orbiting vehicles, and fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles. Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Thornton, Colorado.
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.
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