Enphase Energy (NASDAQ:ENPH – Get Free Report) and QuickLogic (NASDAQ:QUIK – Get Free Report) are both energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
Profitability
This table compares Enphase Energy and QuickLogic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Enphase Energy | 7.72% | 15.62% | 4.32% |
| QuickLogic | -6.83% | -7.30% | -3.04% |
Risk & Volatility
Enphase Energy has a beta of 1.94, meaning that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuickLogic has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Enphase Energy | 4 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 2.30 |
| QuickLogic | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3.25 |
Enphase Energy currently has a consensus price target of $89.79, suggesting a potential upside of 61.03%. QuickLogic has a consensus price target of $11.53, suggesting a potential upside of 142.30%. Given QuickLogic’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe QuickLogic is more favorable than Enphase Energy.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Enphase Energy and QuickLogic”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Enphase Energy | $1.33 billion | 5.55 | $102.66 million | $0.74 | 75.35 |
| QuickLogic | $20.11 million | 3.74 | -$260,000.00 | ($0.26) | -18.31 |
Enphase Energy has higher revenue and earnings than QuickLogic. QuickLogic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enphase Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
72.1% of Enphase Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.5% of QuickLogic shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of Enphase Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of QuickLogic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Enphase Energy beats QuickLogic on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Enphase Energy
Enphase Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells home energy solutions for the solar photovoltaic industry in the United States and internationally. The company offers semiconductor-based microinverter, which converts energy at the individual solar module level and combines with its proprietary networking and software technologies to provide energy monitoring and control. It also provides microinverter units and related accessories, an IQ gateway; IQ batteries; the cloud-based Enlighten monitoring service; storage solutions; and electric vehicle charging solutions, as well as design, proposal, permitting, and lead generation services. The company sells its solutions to solar distributors; and directly to large installers, original equipment manufacturers, strategic partners, and homeowners, as well as through its legacy product upgrade program or online store. Enphase Energy, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
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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