Atomera (NASDAQ:ATOM – Get Free Report) and Penguin Solutions (NASDAQ:PENG – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Atomera and Penguin Solutions”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Atomera | $230,000.00 | 556.35 | -$20.17 million | ($0.65) | -5.04 |
| Penguin Solutions | $1.73 billion | 1.79 | $180.62 million | $2.59 | 23.35 |
Volatility and Risk
Atomera has a beta of 2.03, suggesting that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Penguin Solutions has a beta of 2.86, suggesting that its stock price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Atomera and Penguin Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Atomera | -9,742.17% | -77.91% | -70.64% |
| Penguin Solutions | 10.43% | 36.71% | 7.95% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Atomera and Penguin Solutions, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Atomera | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Penguin Solutions | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2.80 |
Penguin Solutions has a consensus target price of $87.50, indicating a potential upside of 44.66%. Given Penguin Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Penguin Solutions is more favorable than Atomera.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
30.8% of Atomera shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of Atomera shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Penguin Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Penguin Solutions beats Atomera on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Atomera
Atomera Incorporated engages in the developing, commercializing, and licensing proprietary processes and technologies for the semiconductor industry in North America and the Asia Pacific. The company's lead technology is the Mears Silicon Technology, a thin film of reengineered silicon that can be applied as a transistor channel enhancement to CMOS-type transistors. Its customers include foundries, integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, and electronic design automation companies. The company was formerly known as Mears Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Atomera Incorporated in January 2016. Atomera Incorporated was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.
About Penguin Solutions
Penguin Solutions, Inc. engages in the designing and development of enterprise solutions worldwide. It operates through three segments: Advanced Computing, Integrated Memory, and Optimized LED. It offers dynamic random access memory modules, solid-state and flash storage, and other advanced integrated memory solutions for networking and telecom, data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications; and supply chain services, including procurement, logistics, inventory management, temporary warehousing, programming, kitting, and packaging services. The company also provides Penguin Computing that focus on technical computing for core and cloud environments through high-performance computing and AI solutions; and Penguin Edge, an edge computing solution for embedded and wireless applications, such as high-performance products for government, health care, manufacturing, and telecommunications applications. In addition, it offers Stratus, which provides simplified, protected, and autonomous fault tolerant computing solutions in the data center and at the Edge through hardware and software services; and solutions to education, energy, financial services, government, hyperscale, and manufacturing markets. Further, the company provides LED chip products comprising blue and green LED chips based on gallium nitride, and related materials under Cree LED brand; and surface mount devices under the Cree LED XLamp and J Series brands. It sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers, enterprise, government and other end customers through direct sales force, e-commerce, customer service representatives, on-site field application engineers, independent sales representatives, distributors, integrators, and resellers. The company was formerly known as SMART Global Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Penguin Solutions, Inc. in October 2024. Penguin Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.
Receive News & Ratings for Atomera Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Atomera and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.
