Analog Devices (NASDAQ:ADI – Get Free Report) and QuickLogic (NASDAQ:QUIK – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
Profitability
This table compares Analog Devices and QuickLogic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Analog Devices | 17.07% | 9.47% | 6.89% |
| QuickLogic | -6.83% | -7.30% | -3.04% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings for Analog Devices and QuickLogic, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Analog Devices | 0 | 7 | 16 | 0 | 2.70 |
| QuickLogic | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
86.8% of Analog Devices shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.5% of QuickLogic shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Analog Devices shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of QuickLogic shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Analog Devices and QuickLogic”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Analog Devices | $9.43 billion | 11.44 | $3.31 billion | $3.29 | 66.01 |
| QuickLogic | $21.20 million | 5.37 | -$260,000.00 | ($0.10) | -77.40 |
Analog Devices has higher revenue and earnings than QuickLogic. QuickLogic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Analog Devices, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk and Volatility
Analog Devices has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuickLogic has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Analog Devices beats QuickLogic on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Analog Devices
Analog Devices, Inc. designs, manufactures, tests, and markets integrated circuits (ICs), software, and subsystems products in the United States, rest of North and South America, Europe, Japan, China, and rest of Asia. The company provides data converter products, which translate real-world analog signals into digital data, as well as translates digital data into analog signals; power management and reference products for power conversion, driver monitoring, sequencing, and energy management applications in the automotive, communications, industrial, and consumer markets; and power ICs that include performance, integration, and software design simulation tools for accurate power supply designs. It also offers amplifiers to condition analog signals; and radio frequency and microwave ICs to support cellular infrastructure; and micro-electro-mechanical systems technology solutions, including accelerometers used to sense acceleration, gyroscopes for sense rotation, inertial measurement units to sense multiple degrees of freedom, and broadband switches for radio and instrument systems, as well as isolators. In addition, the company provides digital signal processing and system products for numeric calculations. It serves clients in the industrial, automotive, consumer, instrumentation, aerospace, defense and healthcare, and communications markets through a direct sales force, third-party distributors, and independent sales representatives, as well as online. Analog Devices, Inc. was incorporated in 1965 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
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.
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