Contrasting Sandisk (SNDK) and The Competition

Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) is one of 258 publicly-traded companies in the “Technology Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Sandisk to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and profitability.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Sandisk and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sandisk	$7.36 billion	-$1.64 billion	-356.91
Sandisk Competitors	$1.40 billion	$24.56 million	-4.58

Sandisk has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its competitors. Sandisk is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Sandisk and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sandisk	1	8	10	2	2.62
Sandisk Competitors	999	2401	4986	278	2.52

Sandisk presently has a consensus price target of $120.41, suggesting a potential downside of 41.83%. As a group, “Technology Services” companies have a potential upside of 21.57%. Given Sandisk’s competitors higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sandisk has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

37.7% of shares of all “Technology Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Sandisk shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of shares of all “Technology Services” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Sandisk and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sandisk	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sandisk Competitors	-438.76%	-671.26%	-17.28%

Sandisk Company Profile

SanDisk Corporation offers flash storage solutions. The Company designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using flash memory, controller, firmware and software technologies. The Company operates through flash memory storage products segment. Its solutions include a range of solid state drives (SSD), embedded products, removable cards, universal serial bus (USB), drives, wireless media drives, digital media players, and wafers and components. It offers SSDs for client computing applications, which encompass desktop computers, notebook computers, tablets and other computing devices. Its embedded products are used for embedded storage for mobile phones, tablets, notebooks and other portable and wearable devices, as well as in automotive and connected home applications. Its removable products include cards, USB flash drives, Wireless Drives and Digital Media Players at a range of storage capacities. It sells memory wafers and memory components.