indie Semiconductor (NASDAQ:INDI – Get Free Report) and Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends and earnings.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
67.7% of indie Semiconductor shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Ultra Clean shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of indie Semiconductor shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Ultra Clean shares are owned 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.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares indie Semiconductor and Ultra Clean”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| indie Semiconductor | $223.17 million | 3.88 | -$117.62 million | ($0.67) | -6.40 |
| Ultra Clean | $1.73 billion | 0.99 | -$31.10 million | $0.08 | 476.06 |
Risk & Volatility
indie Semiconductor has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ultra Clean has a beta of 2.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for indie Semiconductor and Ultra Clean, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| indie Semiconductor | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Ultra Clean | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.00 |
indie Semiconductor presently has a consensus price target of $8.92, indicating a potential upside of 107.85%. Ultra Clean has a consensus price target of $57.75, indicating a potential upside of 51.65%. Given indie Semiconductor’s higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe indie Semiconductor is more favorable than Ultra Clean.
Profitability
This table compares indie Semiconductor and Ultra Clean’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| indie Semiconductor | -49.88% | -24.04% | -14.42% |
| Ultra Clean | 0.18% | 4.08% | 1.94% |
Summary
Ultra Clean beats indie Semiconductor on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About indie Semiconductor
indie Semiconductor, Inc. provides automotive semiconductors and software solutions for advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous vehicle, in-cabin, connected car, and electrification applications in the United States, South America, rest of North America, Greater China, South Korea, rest of the Asia Pacific, and Europe. It offers ultrasonic sensors for parking assist and systems; radar sensors for audio assistance and reverse information; front cameras for vehicle detection, collision avoidance, and sign reading; and side/inside cameras for blind spot and lane change assist, and driver behavior monitoring. The company also provides LiDAR for distance, speed, and obstacle detection, collision avoidance, and emergency brake system; and long range RADAR for audio assistance, obstacle detection, and ACC stop and go. In addition, it designs and manufactures photonic components on various technology platforms, including fiber Bragg gratings, low-noise lasers, athermal and tunable packaging, photonic integration, and low-noise and high-speed electronics. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California.
About Ultra Clean
Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. develops and supplies critical subsystems, components and parts, and ultra-high purity cleaning and analytical services for the semiconductor industry in the United States and internationally. The company provides ultra-clean valves, high purity connectors, industrial process connectors and valves, pneumatic actuators, manifolds and safety solutions, hoses, pressure gauges, and gas line and component heaters; chemical delivery modules that deliver gases and reactive chemicals in a liquid or gaseous form from a centralized subsystem to the reaction chamber; and gas delivery systems, such as weldments, filters, mass flow controllers, regulators, pressure transducers and valves, component heaters, and an integrated electronic and/or pneumatic control system. It also offers various industrial and automation production equipment; fluid delivery systems consist of one or more chemical delivery units, including PFA tubing, filters, flow controllers, regulators, component heaters, and an integrated electronic and/or pneumatic control system; precision robotic systems; top-plate assemblies; frame assemblies; process modules, a subsystem of semiconductor manufacturing tools that process integrated circuits onto wafers; and other high-level assemblies. In addition, the company provides tool chamber parts cleaning and coating services; micro-contamination analysis services for tool parts, wafers and depositions, chemicals, cleanroom materials, deionized water, and airborne molecular contamination; and analytical verification services for process tool chamber part cleaning. It primarily serves original equipment manufacturing customers in the semiconductor capital equipment and semiconductor integrated device manufacturing industries, as well as display, consumer, medical, energy, industrial, and research equipment industries. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Hayward, California.
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