Critical Contrast: Silvaco Group (SVCO) and The Competition

Silvaco Group (NASDAQ:SVCO) is one of 461 public companies in the “Prepackaged software” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Silvaco Group to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and profitability.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Silvaco Group and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Silvaco Group	$59.68 million	-$320,000.00	-3.29
Silvaco Group Competitors	$2.51 billion	$326.31 million	-690.98

Silvaco Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Silvaco Group. Silvaco Group is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Silvaco Group and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Silvaco Group	0	0	6	0	3.00
Silvaco Group Competitors	2498	17044	33022	962	2.61

Silvaco Group currently has a consensus target price of $19.17, indicating a potential upside of 270.73%. As a group, “Prepackaged software” companies have a potential upside of 27.89%. Given Silvaco Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Silvaco Group is more favorable than its peers.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

56.9% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 19.1% of shares of all “Prepackaged software” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Silvaco Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Silvaco Group	-84.35%	-43.77%	-25.12%
Silvaco Group Competitors	-71.61%	-38.00%	-6.78%

Summary

Silvaco Group peers beat Silvaco Group on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

About Silvaco Group

Silvaco Group Inc. is a provider of TCAD, EDA software and SIP solutions which enable semiconductor design and AI through software and innovation. The company’s solutions are used for process and device development across display, power devices, automotive, memory, high performance compute, photonics, internet of things and 5G/6G mobile markets for complex SoC design. Silvaco Group Inc. is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.