Diodes (NASDAQ:DIOD – Get Free Report) and Screen (OTCMKTS:DINRF – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
99.2% of Diodes shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Diodes shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Diodes and Screen, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Diodes | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Screen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Diodes and Screen”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Diodes | $1.48 billion | 2.94 | $66.14 million | $1.85 | 51.21 |
| Screen | $4.02 billion | 1.94 | $607.23 million | $4.10 | 20.18 |
Screen has higher revenue and earnings than Diodes. Screen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diodes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Diodes has a beta of 1.89, indicating that its stock price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Screen has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Diodes and Screen’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Diodes | 5.27% | 4.33% | 3.41% |
| Screen | 14.32% | 19.03% | 12.23% |
Summary
Diodes beats Screen on 9 of the 15 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 Screen
SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, sells, and maintains semiconductor production equipment in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China, the United States, Europe, and internationally. It operates in four segments: Semiconductor Production Equipment Business, Graphic Arts Equipment Business, Display Production Equipment and Coater Business, and PCB-Related Equipment Business. The company offers coat/develop trackers, wafer cleaning systems, annealing systems, measurement systems, inspection systems, and advanced packaging lithography equipment. It also provides coater systems, vacuum film deposition equipment, wet processors, dryers, heaters, exposures, and laminators/de-laminators. In addition, the company offers direct imaging systems, automatic optical inspection systems, automatic optical photomask inspection systems, and defect verification and repair systems; automatic final visual inspection systems; and setup stations and defect tabulation software. Further, it provides high-speed inkjet, label, wide format, CTP, network support, Hiragino font, and other workflow solutions; offset printing, digital book, manual, direct mail, transpromo, label production, package printing, display, and signage solutions; and artificial intelligence, text mining, augmented reality, image analysis, and congestion analysis solutions. Additionally, the company offers biosciences equipment; compact inkjet printing systems for tablets, UV inkjet printing systems for aluminum rolls, and inkjet printing systems for tablets; in-vehicle components for inspection and measurement; and lithium-ion rechargeable batteries and fuel cells. It also undertakes contract manufacturing and support, and intellectual property services related operations. The company was formerly known as Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. and changed its name to SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. in October 2014. SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.
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