Head-To-Head Review: TD SYNNEX (NYSE:SNX) & Syntec Optics (NASDAQ:OPTX)

Syntec Optics (NASDAQ:OPTX) and TD SYNNEX (NYSE:SNX) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends and earnings.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Syntec Optics and TD SYNNEX”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Syntec Optics	$28.08 million	10.18	-$1.79 million	($0.06)	-118.33
TD SYNNEX	$62.51 billion	0.34	$827.66 million	$13.97	19.27

TD SYNNEX has higher revenue and earnings than Syntec Optics. Syntec Optics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TD SYNNEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

84.0% of TD SYNNEX shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Syntec Optics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of TD SYNNEX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Syntec Optics and TD SYNNEX, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Syntec Optics	1	0	0	0	1.00
TD SYNNEX	0	2	8	0	2.80

TD SYNNEX has a consensus price target of $295.67, indicating a potential upside of 9.84%. Given TD SYNNEX’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TD SYNNEX is more favorable than Syntec Optics.

Profitability

This table compares Syntec Optics and TD SYNNEX’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Syntec Optics	-8.26%	-16.50%	-8.68%
TD SYNNEX	1.63%	15.37%	3.82%

Risk & Volatility

Syntec Optics has a beta of -0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 177% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TD SYNNEX has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

TD SYNNEX beats Syntec Optics on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Syntec Optics

Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc. manufactures and supplies integrated optics for biomedical, defense and military, consumer, and other applications. It offers camera modules; tool design, design for manufacturing, optical and opto-mechanical design, and moldflow analysis; SPDT optics, such as freedom optics, microlens arrays, spheres and aspheres, diffractives, SPDT materials, and optical tooling; replicative molding, that includes polymer and glass molding, and molded production materials; thin film coating and coating curve materials; and precision machining and precision machining materials. The company also provides clean room assembly, such as opto mechanical, opto electronic, and integrated photonics; infrared optics, microlens arrays, software development, and optical metrology, and catalog optics services. In addition, it offers driverless cars, integrated photonics, robotics, sensors, VR and AR, machine vision, facial imagining, heads up display, finger print scanners, and laser scanners technology for consumers; night vision goggles, missile laser guides, biometrics, infrared and thermal imaging, ordnance optics, head mounted displays, 2D and 3D scanners, humvee lighting , laser targeting, protective domes and windows, and lidar technologies for defense and miliary; and medical diagnostic, microfluidics, surgical components and systems, and medical sensing technology for medical sectors. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Rochester, New York.

About TD SYNNEX

TD SYNNEX Corporation operates as a distributor and solutions aggregator for the information technology (IT) ecosystem. The company offers personal computing devices and peripherals, mobile phones and accessories, printers, supplies, and endpoint technology software; and data center technologies, such as hybrid cloud, security, storage, networking, servers, technology software, and converged and hyper-converged infrastructure, as well as computing components. It also provides systems design and rack integration, build-to-order, and configure-to-order assembly; and thermal testing, power-draw testing, burn-in, and quality and logistics support. In addition, the company offers outsourced fulfillment, virtual distribution, and direct ship to end-users; shipping documents generation, multi-level serial number tracking, and configured products and online order and shipment tracking, as well as turn-key logistics solutions. Further, it provides public cloud solutions in productivity and collaboration, IaaS, or Infrastructure as a Service, PaaS, or Platform as a Service, SaaS, or Software as a Service, security, mobility, IoT, and other hybrid solutions. Additionally, the company offers online services; provides net terms, third party leasing, floor plan financing, and letters-of-credit backed financing and arrangement; and leases products and provides device-as-a-service, as well as offers direct mail, external media advertising, reseller product training, targeted telemarketing campaigns, national and regional trade shows, trade groups, database analysis, print on demand services, and web-based marketing. It serves value-added resellers, corporate resellers, government resellers, system integrators, direct marketers, retailers, and managed service providers. The company was formerly known as SYNNEX Corporation and changed its name to TD SYNNEX Corporation in September 2021. TD SYNNEX Corporation was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.