Contrasting Nano Labs (NASDAQ:NA) and Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL)

Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) and Nano Labs (NASDAQ:NA) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Marvell Technology and Nano Labs”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Marvell Technology	$7.79 billion	8.68	-$885.00 million	$2.85	28.00
Nano Labs	$5.65 million	18.39	-$15.75 million	($6.80)	-0.52

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

Risk and Volatility

Marvell Technology has a beta of 1.95, meaning that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nano Labs has a beta of 3.16, meaning that its stock price is 216% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Marvell Technology and Nano Labs’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Marvell Technology	31.75%	13.15%	8.65%
Nano Labs	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Marvell Technology and Nano Labs, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Marvell Technology	0	13	23	3	2.74
Nano Labs	1	0	0	0	1.00

Marvell Technology currently has a consensus target price of $115.70, indicating a potential upside of 44.98%. Given Marvell Technology’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Marvell Technology is more favorable than Nano Labs.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

83.5% of Marvell Technology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.7% of Nano Labs shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Marvell Technology shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Marvell Technology beats Nano Labs on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Marvell Technology

Marvell Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, spanning the data center core to network edge. The company develops and scales complex System-on-a-Chip architectures, integrating analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing functionality. It offers a portfolio of Ethernet solutions, including controllers, network adapters, physical transceivers, and switches; single or multiple core processors; and custom application specific integrated circuits. The company also provides electro-optical products, including pulse amplitude modulations, coherent digital signal processors, laser drivers, trans-impedance amplifiers, silicon photonics, and data center interconnect solutions; fibre channel products comprising host bus adapters and controllers; storage controllers for hard disk drives and solid-state-drives; and host system interfaces, including serial attached SCSI, serial advanced technology attachment, peripheral component interconnect express, non-volatile memory express (NVMe), and NVMe over fabrics. It has operations in the United States, Argentina, China, India, Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Marvell Technology, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

About Nano Labs

Nano Labs Ltd operates as a fabless integrated circuit design company and product solution provider in the People's Republic of China and internationally. It develops high throughput computing and high-performance computing chips. The company also offers distributed computing and storage solutions, smart network interface cards, and vision computing chips, as well as distributed rendering technology. In addition, it engages in the research and development of software. Its customers include enterprises and individual buyers. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, the People's Republic of China.