IonQ (NYSE:IONQ – Get Free Report) and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD – Get Free Report) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Profitability
This table compares IonQ and Advanced Micro Devices’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| IonQ | -885.21% | -67.11% | -57.89% |
| Advanced Micro Devices | 9.57% | 7.54% | 6.13% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for IonQ and Advanced Micro Devices, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| IonQ | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 2.58 |
| Advanced Micro Devices | 1 | 13 | 21 | 3 | 2.68 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
41.4% of IonQ shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Advanced Micro Devices shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of IonQ shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Advanced Micro Devices shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares IonQ and Advanced Micro Devices”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| IonQ | $43.07 million | 463.77 | -$331.65 million | ($2.01) | -33.48 |
| Advanced Micro Devices | $25.79 billion | 10.04 | $1.64 billion | $1.74 | 91.64 |
Advanced Micro Devices has higher revenue and earnings than IonQ. IonQ is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advanced Micro Devices, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk & Volatility
IonQ has a beta of 2.54, suggesting that its share price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Advanced Micro Devices has a beta of 1.92, suggesting that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Advanced Micro Devices beats IonQ on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About IonQ
IonQ, Inc. engages in the development of general-purpose quantum computing systems in the United States. It sells access to quantum computers of various qubit capacities. The company makes access to its quantum computers through cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon Braket, Microsoft’s Azure Quantum, and Google’s Cloud Marketplace, as well as through its cloud service. It also provides contracts associated with the design, development, and construction of specialized quantum computing hardware systems; maintenance and support services; and consulting services related to co-developing algorithms on quantum computing systems. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in College Park, Maryland.
About Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. operates as a semiconductor company worldwide. It operates through Data Center, Client, Gaming, and Embedded segments. The company offers x86 microprocessors and graphics processing units (GPUs) as an accelerated processing unit, chipsets, data center, and professional GPUs; and embedded processors, and semi-custom system-on-chip (SoC) products, microprocessor and SoC development services and technology, data processing unites, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), and adaptive SoC products. It provides processors under the AMD Ryzen, AMD Ryzen PRO, Ryzen Threadripper, Ryzen Threadripper PRO, AMD Athlon, AMD Athlon PRO, and AMD PRO A-Series brand names; graphics under the AMD Radeon graphics and AMD Embedded Radeon graphics; and professional graphics under the AMD Radeon Pro graphics brand name. In addition, the company offers data center graphics under the Radeon Instinct and Radeon PRO V-series brands, as well as servers under the AMD Instinct accelerators brand; server microprocessors under the AMD EPYC brands; low power solutions under the AMD Athlon, AMD Geode, AMD Ryzen, AMD EPYC, AMD R-Series, and G-Series brands; FPGA products under the Virtex-6, Virtex-7, Virtex UltraScale+, Kintex-7, Kintex UltraScale, Kintex UltraScale+, Artix-7, Artix UltraScale+, Spartan-6, and Spartan-7 brands; adaptive SOCs under the Zynq-7000, Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs, Versal HBM, Versal Premium, Versal Prime, Versal AI Core, Versal AI Edge, Vitis, and Vivado brands; and compute and network acceleration board products under the Alveo brand. It serves original equipment and design manufacturers, public cloud service providers, system integrators, independent distributors, and add-in-board manufacturers through its direct sales force, and sales representatives. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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