Amkor Technology (NASDAQ:AMKR – Get Free Report) and SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ:SKYT – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
42.8% of Amkor Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.0% of SkyWater Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.9% of Amkor Technology shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.9% of SkyWater Technology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Risk & Volatility
Amkor Technology has a beta of 2, suggesting that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SkyWater Technology has a beta of 3.5, suggesting that its share price is 250% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Amkor Technology | $6.32 billion | 1.89 | $354.01 million | $1.25 | 38.56 |
| SkyWater Technology | $342.27 million | 4.44 | -$6.79 million | $2.58 | 12.14 |
Amkor Technology has higher revenue and earnings than SkyWater Technology. SkyWater Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amkor Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Amkor Technology and SkyWater Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Amkor Technology | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2.45 |
| SkyWater Technology | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Amkor Technology currently has a consensus target price of $39.14, suggesting a potential downside of 18.79%. SkyWater Technology has a consensus target price of $32.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.17%. Given SkyWater Technology’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SkyWater Technology is more favorable than Amkor Technology.
Profitability
This table compares Amkor Technology and SkyWater Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Amkor Technology | 4.77% | 7.26% | 4.14% |
| SkyWater Technology | 36.36% | -4.96% | -1.05% |
Summary
Amkor Technology beats SkyWater Technology on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Amkor Technology
Amkor Technology, Inc. provides outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services in the United States, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers turnkey packaging and test services, including semiconductor wafer bump, wafer probe, wafer back-grind, package design, packaging, system-level and final test, and drop shipment services; flip chip scale package products for smartphones, tablets, and other mobile consumer electronic devices; flip chip stacked chip scale packages that are used to stack memory digital baseband, and as applications processors in mobile devices; flip-chip ball grid array packages for various networking, storage, computing, automotive, and consumer applications; and memory products for system memory or platform data storage. The company also provides wafer-level CSP packages for power management, transceivers, sensors, wireless charging, codecs, radar, and specialty silicon; wafer-level fan-out packages used in power management, transceivers, radar, and specialty silicon; silicon wafer integrated fan-out technology that replaces a laminate substrate with a thinner structure; leadframe packages for electronic devices and mixed-signal applications; and substrate-based wirebond packages used to connect a die to a substrate. In addition, it offers micro-electro-mechanical systems packages that are miniaturized mechanical and electromechanical devices; and advanced system-in-package modules used in radio frequency and front end modules, basebands, connectivity, fingerprint sensors, display and touch screen drivers, sensors and MEMS, and NAND memory and solid-state drives. Further, the company provides wafer, package, and system level test services, as well as burn-in test and test development services. It serves integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies, original equipment manufacturers, and contract foundries. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.
About SkyWater Technology
SkyWater Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a pure-play technology foundry that engages in the provision of semiconductor development, manufacturing, and packaging services in the United States. The company offers engineering and process development support services to co-create technologies with customers; and semiconductor manufacturing services for various silicon-based analog and mixed-signal, micro-electromechanical systems, and rad-hard integrated circuits. It serves customers operating in the computation, aerospace and defense, automotive, bio-health, consumer, and industrial sectors. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota.
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