Navitas Semiconductor (NASDAQ:NVTS) vs. Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) Head-To-Head Review

Navitas Semiconductor (NASDAQ:NVTS) and Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Navitas Semiconductor and Marvell Technology”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Navitas Semiconductor	$83.30 million	20.03	-$84.60 million	($0.64)	-11.31
Marvell Technology	$5.77 billion	12.76	-$885.00 million	$2.85	30.44

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

Volatility & Risk

Navitas Semiconductor has a beta of 3.14, indicating that its share price is 214% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marvell Technology has a beta of 1.93, indicating that its share price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Navitas Semiconductor and Marvell Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Navitas Semiconductor	2	5	2	0	2.00
Marvell Technology	0	14	20	4	2.74

Navitas Semiconductor currently has a consensus price target of $6.48, suggesting a potential downside of 10.45%. Marvell Technology has a consensus price target of $111.25, suggesting a potential upside of 28.23%. Given Marvell Technology’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Marvell Technology is more favorable than Navitas Semiconductor.

Profitability

This table compares Navitas Semiconductor and Marvell Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Navitas Semiconductor	-220.85%	-14.86%	-13.13%
Marvell Technology	31.75%	13.15%	8.65%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

46.1% of Navitas Semiconductor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.5% of Marvell Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 29.9% of Navitas Semiconductor shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Marvell Technology shares are held 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.

Summary

Marvell Technology beats Navitas Semiconductor on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Navitas Semiconductor

Navitas Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops, and markets gallium nitride power integrated circuits, silicon carbide, associated high-speed silicon system controllers, and digital isolators used in power conversion and charging. The company’s products are used in mobile, consumer, data center, solar, electric vehicle, industrial motor drive, smart grid, and transportation applications. It operates in the United States, Europe, China, rest of Asia, and internationally. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Torrance, California.

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.