Critical Contrast: China Sunergy (OTCMKTS:CSUNY) vs. PENG (NASDAQ:PENG)

PENG (NASDAQ:PENG) and China Sunergy (OTCMKTS:CSUNY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, valuation and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares PENG and China Sunergy’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PENG	-4.48%	8.05%	2.14%
China Sunergy	N/A	N/A	N/A

Volatility and Risk

PENG has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, China Sunergy has a beta of 3.78, meaning that its share price is 278% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares PENG and China Sunergy”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PENG	$1.17 billion	0.83	-$52.47 million	($1.00)	-18.14
China Sunergy	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

China Sunergy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PENG.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for PENG and China Sunergy, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PENG	0	0	5	1	3.17
China Sunergy	0	0	0	0	0.00

PENG currently has a consensus target price of $23.60, indicating a potential upside of 30.10%. Given PENG’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PENG is more favorable than China Sunergy.

Summary

PENG beats China Sunergy on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About PENG

SMART Global Holdings, Inc., a memory-focused company, engages in the designing and development of enterprise solutions in the United States, China, Europe, and internationally. It operates through Memory Solutions, Intelligent Platform Solutions, and LED Solutions segments. The company offers dynamic random access memory modules, solid-state and flash storage, and other advanced memory solutions for networking and telecom, data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications; and supply chain services including procurement, logistics, inventory management, temporary warehousing, programming, kitting, and packaging services. It also provides Penguin Computing that focus on technical computing for core and cloud environments through HPC and AI solutions; and Penguin Edge, an edge computing solution for embedded and wireless applications including high-performance products for government, health care, industrial, and telecommunications applications. In addition, the company offers Stratus, which provides simplified, protected, and autonomous fault tolerant computing solutions in the data center and at the Edge through hardware and software services; and leading-edge solutions to education, energy, financial services, government, hyperscale, and manufacturing markets. Further, it provides LED-based products comprising blue and green LED chips based on gallium nitride, and related materials under Cree LED brand; and surface mount devices under the Cree LED XLamp and J Series brand. The company sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers, enterprise, government and other end customers through direct sales force, e-commerce, customer service representatives, on-site field application engineers, independent sales representatives, distributors, integrators, and resellers. SMART Global Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

About China Sunergy

China Sunergy Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets solar cells and modules in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company offers monocrystalline and multicrystalline silicon solar cells; and standard P-type solar cells, HP solar cells, and emitter cells, as well as solar modules for use in a range of residential, commercial, industrial, and other solar power generation systems. It also invests in, develops, and operates solar power projects. The company sells its products to system integrators, solar power project developers, and solar power product distributors under the CSUN brand name, as well as on an original equipment manufacturing basis. China Sunergy Co., Ltd. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Nanjing, the People's Republic of China.