Financial Review: Nano Labs (NASDAQ:NA) versus Power Integrations (NASDAQ:POWI)

Nano Labs (NASDAQ:NA) and Power Integrations (NASDAQ:POWI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation and risk.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

50.7% of Nano Labs shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Power Integrations shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Nano Labs and Power Integrations’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nano Labs	N/A	N/A	N/A
Power Integrations	9.27%	4.14%	3.77%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Nano Labs and Power Integrations”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nano Labs	$11.06 million	5.09	-$35.70 million	N/A	N/A
Power Integrations	$444.54 million	8.08	$55.74 million	$0.66	95.67

Power Integrations has higher revenue and earnings than Nano Labs.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Nano Labs and Power Integrations, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nano Labs	0	0	0	0	0.00
Power Integrations	0	2	4	1	2.86

Power Integrations has a consensus target price of $78.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.54%. Given Power Integrations’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Power Integrations is more favorable than Nano Labs.

Risk and Volatility

Nano Labs has a beta of 2.7, indicating that its stock price is 170% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Power Integrations has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Power Integrations beats Nano Labs on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Power Integrations

Power Integrations, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs), and other electronic components and circuitry used in high-voltage power conversion worldwide. The company provides a range of alternating current to direct current power conversion products that address power supply ranging from less than one watt of output to approximately 500 watts of output for mobile-device chargers, consumer appliances, utility meters, LCD monitors, main and standby power supplies for desktop computers and TVs, LED lighting, and various other consumer and industrial applications, as well as power conversion in high-power applications comprising industrial motors, solar and wind-power systems, electric vehicles, and high-voltage DC transmission systems. It also offers high-voltage diodes; InnoSwitch IC for electric vehicles; high-voltage gate-driver products used to operate high-voltage switches, such as insulated-gate bipolar transistors and silicon-carbide MOSFETs under the SCALE and SCALE-2 product-family names; and SCALE-iDriver for use in powertrain and charging applications for electric vehicles. In addition, the company provides motor-driver ICs for use in refrigerator compressors, ceiling fans, and air purifiers, as well as pumps, fans, and blowers used in consumer appliances, such as dishwashers and laundry machines. It serves communications, computer, consumer, and industrial markets. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and merchant power supply manufacturers through direct sales staff, as well as a network of independent sales representatives and distributors. Power Integrations, Inc. was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.