Contrasting GSI Technology (GSIT) & Its Competitors

GSI Technology (NASDAQ:GSIT) is one of 221 publicly-traded companies in the “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare GSI Technology to related businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation and profitability.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GSI Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A
GSI Technology Competitors	-5,749.83%	-633.24%	-20.32%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares GSI Technology and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
GSI Technology	$25.15 million	N/A	-9.57
GSI Technology Competitors	$634.27 million	-$3.72 million	30.71

GSI Technology’s competitors have higher revenue, but lower earnings than GSI Technology. GSI Technology 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.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

33.2% of GSI Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.8% of shares of all “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of GSI Technology shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of shares of all “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

GSI Technology has a beta of 2.11, indicating that its share price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GSI Technology’s competitors have a beta of 1.64, indicating that their average share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for GSI Technology and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GSI Technology	1	0	1	0	2.00
GSI Technology Competitors	3470	12238	25575	981	2.57

GSI Technology presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 104.55%. As a group, “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” companies have a potential upside of 33.20%. Given GSI Technology’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe GSI Technology is more favorable than its competitors.

GSI Technology Company Profile

GSI Technology, Inc. designs, develops, and markets semiconductor memory solutions to networking, industrial, medical, aerospace, and military customers in the United States, China, Singapore, Germany, the Netherlands, and internationally. It offers associative processing unit products, which are focuses on applications using similarity search in visual search queries for ecommerce, computer vision, drug discovery, cyber security, and service markets. The company also provides static random access memory (SRAM) products, such as SyncBurst for microprocessor cache and other applications; No Bus Turnaround SRAMs to address the needs of networking and telecom applications; SigmaQuad and SigmaDDR products for density and random transaction rate requirements of networking and telecom applications; Low Latency DRAMs, a solution for advanced data networking applications; Asynchronous, a main memory for small cache-less embedded processors for industrial electronics, measurement systems and cost-sensitive networking equipment, and other applications; and specialty SRAMs. In addition, it offers radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant SRAMs for military/defense and aerospace applications, such as networking satellites and missiles. The company's products are used as components in its original equipment manufacturer customers' products, including routers, switches, and other networking and telecommunications products; military and aerospace applications, such as radar and guidance systems and satellites; test and measurement applications consisting of high-speed testers; automotive applications comprising smart cruise control; medical applications, including ultrasound and CAT scan equipment; and audio/video processing. It markets its products through a network of independent sales representatives and distributors. GSI Technology, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.