Head-To-Head Survey: Soitec (OTCMKTS:SLOIF) vs. JE Cleantech (NASDAQ:JCSE)

JE Cleantech (NASDAQ:JCSE) and Soitec (OTCMKTS:SLOIF) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations for JE Cleantech and Soitec, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
JE Cleantech	0	0	0	0	0.00
Soitec	0	0	0	1	4.00

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.0% of JE Cleantech shares are owned by institutional investors. 64.0% of JE Cleantech shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares JE Cleantech and Soitec”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
JE Cleantech	$13.67 million	0.57	$390,000.00	N/A	N/A
Soitec	$1.06 billion	1.97	$193.54 million	N/A	N/A

Soitec has higher revenue and earnings than JE Cleantech.

Profitability

This table compares JE Cleantech and Soitec’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JE Cleantech	N/A	N/A	N/A
Soitec	N/A	N/A	N/A

Volatility & Risk

JE Cleantech has a beta of -0.25, suggesting that its share price is 125% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Soitec has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Soitec beats JE Cleantech on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About JE Cleantech

JE Cleantech Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells cleaning systems for various industrial end-use applications in Singapore, Malaysia, and internationally. It provides various cleaning systems and other equipment, including aqueous washing systems, plating and cleaning systems, train cleaning systems, and filtration units, as well as equipment parts and components. The company also offers centralized dishwashing services for food and beverage establishments, such as food courts, hawker centers, restaurants, cookhouses, eldercare homes, and inflight catering service provider, as well as general cleaning services for food courts and hawker centers. In addition, it leases dishware washing equipment. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Singapore. JE Cleantech Holdings Limited is a subsidiary of JE Cleantech Global Limited.

About Soitec

Soitec SA designs and manufactures semiconductor materials worldwide. Its products are used to manufacture chips that are used in smart phones, tablets, computers, IT servers, and data centers, as well as electronic components in cars, connected devices, and industrial and medical equipment. It provides CONNECT Radio Frequency Silicon-on-Insulator (RF-SOI) for smartphone front-end modules; CONNECT Piezoelectric-on-Insulator RF filters for smartphone; and CONNECT RF gallium nitride for 5g infrastructure base stations and smartphones, as well as CONNECT Fully Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (FD-SOI). The company also offers Auto Power-SOI product for automotive and industrial markets; Auto Smartsic for green mobility; and AUTO POWER-allium nitride for power efficiency, as well as AUTO FD-SOI for automotive radar and processors. In addition, it provides Smart photonics-SOI products for optical networking; Smart Imager-SOI products for next generation 3D image sensing; Smart FD-SOI for ultra low power, energy efficient, and body biasing; smart partially depleted (PD) -SOI for high-performance computing markets. Soitec SA was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Bernin, France.