Head-To-Head Contrast: SemiLEDs (NASDAQ:LEDS) versus Arteris (NASDAQ:AIP)

SemiLEDs (NASDAQ:LEDS) and Arteris (NASDAQ:AIP) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

76.3% of SemiLEDs shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of Arteris shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.0% of SemiLEDs shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.7% of Arteris shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares SemiLEDs and Arteris’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SemiLEDs	-44.37%	-120.86%	-18.80%
Arteris	-68.37%	-274.66%	-35.43%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares SemiLEDs and Arteris”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SemiLEDs	$5.31 million	1.64	-$2.69 million	($0.47)	-2.57
Arteris	$53.30 million	5.53	-$36.87 million	($1.03)	-7.44

SemiLEDs has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Arteris. Arteris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SemiLEDs, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for SemiLEDs and Arteris, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SemiLEDs	0	0	0	0	N/A
Arteris	0	1	3	0	2.75

Arteris has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 69.71%. Given Arteris’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Arteris is more favorable than SemiLEDs.

Risk & Volatility

SemiLEDs has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arteris has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

SemiLEDs beats Arteris on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SemiLEDs

SemiLEDs Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells light emitting diode (LED) chips, LED components, and LED modules and systems in the United States, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, and internationally. The company also sells enhanced vertical, LED product series in blue, white, green, and UV; LED chips to packagers or distributors; and lighting products primarily to original design manufacturers of lighting products and the end-users of lighting devices, as well as packs and sells its LED chips. Its products are used for general lighting applications, including commercial, industrial, and residential lighting; and specialty industrial applications, such as ultraviolet or UV, curing of polymers, LED light therapy in medical/cosmetic applications, counterfeit detection, germicidal and viricidal devices LED lighting for horticulture applications, architectural lighting, and entertainment lighting. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Chu-Nan, Taiwan.

About Arteris

Arteris, Inc. provides semiconductor interconnect intellectual property (IP) and System-on-Chip (Soc) Integration Automation software solutions (SIA) 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 Soc designs and Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnect IP. Its products include FlexNoC and FlexWay silicon-proven interconnect IP products; Ncore, a silicon-proven and cache coherent interconnect IP product that provides scalable, configurable, and area efficient characteristics; and CodaCache, a last-level cache semiconductor IP product. The company also offers SIA products comprising Magillem Connectivity that shortens and streamlines the SoC integration process; and Magillem Registers and CSRCompiler that addresses hardware-software integration challenges for SoCs. The company serves semiconductor manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, hyperscale system houses, semiconductor design houses, and other producers of electronic systems. Arteris, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.