Sandisk (SNDK) and Its Rivals Head-To-Head Comparison

Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) is one of 258 publicly-traded companies in the “Technology Services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Sandisk to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Sandisk and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sandisk	1	8	10	2	2.62
Sandisk Competitors	998	2400	4984	278	2.52

Sandisk currently has a consensus target price of $120.41, indicating a potential downside of 39.59%. As a group, “Technology Services” companies have a potential upside of 20.55%. Given Sandisk’s competitors higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sandisk has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

37.9% of shares of all “Technology Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Sandisk shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of shares of all “Technology Services” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Sandisk and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sandisk	$7.36 billion	-$1.64 billion	-343.67
Sandisk Competitors	$1.28 billion	$24.78 million	-4.56

Sandisk has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its competitors. Sandisk is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Sandisk and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sandisk	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sandisk Competitors	-438.76%	-671.26%	-17.28%

About Sandisk

SanDisk Corporation offers flash storage solutions. The Company designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using flash memory, controller, firmware and software technologies. The Company operates through flash memory storage products segment. Its solutions include a range of solid state drives (SSD), embedded products, removable cards, universal serial bus (USB), drives, wireless media drives, digital media players, and wafers and components. It offers SSDs for client computing applications, which encompass desktop computers, notebook computers, tablets and other computing devices. Its embedded products are used for embedded storage for mobile phones, tablets, notebooks and other portable and wearable devices, as well as in automotive and connected home applications. Its removable products include cards, USB flash drives, Wireless Drives and Digital Media Players at a range of storage capacities. It sells memory wafers and memory components.