LDK Solar (OTCMKTS:LDKYQ – Get Rating) and Arteris (NASDAQ:AIP – Get Rating) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
18.0% of Arteris shares are held by institutional investors. 48.3% of Arteris shares are held 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 current recommendations and price targets for LDK Solar and Arteris, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| LDK Solar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Arteris | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2.80 |
Arteris has a consensus price target of $22.33, indicating a potential upside of 166.83%. Given Arteris’ higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Arteris is more favorable than LDK Solar.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares LDK Solar and Arteris’ top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| LDK Solar | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Arteris | $37.86 million | 7.23 | -$23.38 million | ($0.91) | -9.20 |
LDK Solar has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Arteris.
Profitability
This table compares LDK Solar and Arteris’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| LDK Solar | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Arteris | -53.75% | -78.89% | -25.11% |
Summary
Arteris beats LDK Solar on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
About LDK Solar
LDK Solar Co., Ltd., through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets photovoltaic (PV) products in the People’s Republic of China, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and North America. The company operates through two segments, Polysilicon and Other PV Products. It produces and sells solar-grade and electronic-grade polysilicon. The company also manufactures and sells multicrystalline and monocrystalline solar wafers to manufacturers of solar cells and solar modules; and PV cells and PV modules. In addition, it provides solar module processing services; designs and develops solar farm projects, as well as offers related engineering, procurement, and construction services for solar farm projects; and sells silicon materials, which include ingots and polysilicon scraps. LDK Solar CO., Ltd. was founded in 2005 and is based in Xinyu, the People’s Republic of China.
About Arteris
Arteris, Inc. provides semiconductor interconnect intellectual property (IP) and IP deployment solutions in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East. The company develops, licenses, and supports the on-chip interconnect fabric technology used in System-on-Chip (Soc) designs and Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnect IP. Its products include FlexNoC, a silicon-proven interconnect IP product; FlexNoC Resilience Package, which provides on-chip data protection; Ncore, a silicon-proven and cache coherent interconnect IP product that provides scalable, configurable, and area efficient characteristics; CodaCache, a last-level cache semiconductor IP product; and Physical interconnect aware NoC optimizer, a software tool that estimates physical layout effects during the architecture and logic development stages of an SoC interconnect design; The company also offers FlexWay for IP subsystem interconnect; FlexPSI for All-digital inter chip link; and FlexNoC Physical for linking physical placement and routing tools. In addition, it provides IP deployment software solutions, including specification, design, documentation, artificial intelligence (AI) package, design data intelligence, and harmony trace. The company serves customers in the automotive, AI/machine learning, 5G and wireless communications, data centers, consumer electronics, and other markets. Arteris, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.
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