Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ:AEIS) & Nidec (OTCMKTS:NJDCY) Head to Head Contrast

Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ:AEIS) and Nidec (OTCMKTS:NJDCY) are both technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Advanced Energy Industries and Nidec, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Advanced Energy Industries	0	2	11	1	2.93
Nidec	0	2	0	0	2.00

Advanced Energy Industries currently has a consensus target price of $409.50, suggesting a potential upside of 89.02%. Given Advanced Energy Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Advanced Energy Industries is more favorable than Nidec.

Profitability

This table compares Advanced Energy Industries and Nidec’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Advanced Energy Industries	10.77%	20.75%	10.39%
Nidec	-17.80%	-33.77%	-13.88%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

99.7% of Advanced Energy Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Nidec shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Advanced Energy Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

Advanced Energy Industries has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nidec has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Advanced Energy Industries and Nidec”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Advanced Energy Industries	$1.80 billion	4.82	$148.40 million	$5.36	40.42
Nidec	$17.99 billion	1.38	-$3.73 billion	($0.70)	-3.71

Advanced Energy Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nidec. Nidec is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advanced Energy Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Advanced Energy Industries beats Nidec on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Advanced Energy Industries

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. provides precision power conversion, measurement, and control solutions in the United States and internationally. The company's plasma power products offer solutions to enable innovation for semiconductor and thin film plasma processes, such as dry etch and deposition. It also provides high and low voltage power products used in a range of applications, such as semiconductor equipment, industrial production, medical and life science equipment, data centers computing, networking, and telecommunications. In addition, the company supplies sensing, controls, and instrumentation products for advanced measurement and calibration of power and temperature. Further, the company provides calibration, conversions, upgrades, and refurbishments and used equipment to companies, as well as repair services. Further, it offers warranty and after-market repair services. It offers its products through a direct sales force, independent sales representatives, channel partners, and distributors. Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

About Nidec

Nidec Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells motors, electronics and optical components, and other related products in Japan and internationally. The company offers medium- and large-size motors, small-size and precision motors, motor-related products, units and modules, automotive components, mechanical equipment/machine tools, inspection and measuring equipment, electronic devices, sensors, and other products, as well as mold, molding, cutting, and machining components. Its products are used for applications in robotics, IoT products, automotive components, home appliances, logistics/agriculture, information technology, office automation, mobile optical components, medical and health care products, housing equipment, commercial and professional products, industrial machinery, and processing/inspection equipment. The company was incorporated in 1973 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan..