Head-To-Head Contrast: QuickLogic (NASDAQ:QUIK) versus Kulicke and Soffa Industries (NASDAQ:KLIC)

Kulicke and Soffa Industries (NASDAQ:KLIC) and QuickLogic (NASDAQ:QUIK) are both technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and profitability.

Volatility and Risk

Kulicke and Soffa Industries has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuickLogic has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Kulicke and Soffa Industries and QuickLogic”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Kulicke and Soffa Industries	$654.08 million	7.14	$210,000.00	$1.04	85.77
QuickLogic	$13.77 million	17.36	-$14.82 million	($0.89)	-14.73

Kulicke and Soffa Industries has higher revenue and earnings than QuickLogic. QuickLogic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kulicke and Soffa Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

98.2% of Kulicke and Soffa Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.5% of QuickLogic shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Kulicke and Soffa Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of QuickLogic shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Kulicke and Soffa Industries and QuickLogic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Kulicke and Soffa Industries	7.16%	7.29%	5.38%
QuickLogic	-102.41%	-48.97%	-27.97%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Kulicke and Soffa Industries and QuickLogic, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Kulicke and Soffa Industries	0	4	2	0	2.33
QuickLogic	1	1	2	0	2.25

Kulicke and Soffa Industries currently has a consensus price target of $59.25, indicating a potential downside of 33.58%. QuickLogic has a consensus price target of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 67.81%. Given QuickLogic’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe QuickLogic is more favorable than Kulicke and Soffa Industries.

Summary

Kulicke and Soffa Industries beats QuickLogic on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Kulicke and Soffa Industries

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells capital equipment and tools used to assemble semiconductor devices. It operates through four segments: Ball Bonding Equipment, Wedge Bonding Equipment, Advanced Solutions, and Aftermarket Products and Services (APS). The company offers ball bonding equipment, wafer level bonding equipment, wedge bonding equipment; and advanced display, die-attach, and thermocompression systems and solutions, as well as tools, spares and services for equipment. It also services, maintains, repairs, and upgrades equipment. The company serves semiconductor device manufacturers, integrated device manufacturers, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers, other electronics manufacturers, industrial manufacturers, foundry service providers, and automotive electronics suppliers primarily in the United States and the Asia/Pacific region. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

About QuickLogic

QuickLogic Corporation operates as a fabless semiconductor company in the United States. The company offers embedded FPGA intellectual property, low power, multicore semiconductor system-on-chips, discrete FPGAs, and AI software; and end-to-end artificial intelligence/machine learning solution with accurate sensor algorithms using AI technology. It provides various platforms, such as software tools and eFPGA IP enables the adoption of AI, voice, and sensor processing across aerospace, and defense, consumer/industrial IOT, and consumer electronics markets. In addition, the company engages in the eFPGA IP Licensing business consisting of development and integration of eFPGA technology into custom semiconductor solutions. Further, the company offers silicon products, such as EOS, QuickAI, ArcticLink III, PolarPro 3, PolarPro II, PolarPro, and Eclipse II products; and PASIC 3 and QuickRAM, as well as programming hardware and design software services. The company markets and sells its products to defense industrial base contractors, U.S. government entities, system OEMs, and fabless semiconductor companies through a network of sales managers and distributors in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. It has a strategic partnership with YorChip to develop low-power unified chiplet interconnect express FPGA chiplets. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.