Head to Head Contrast: Entegris (ENTG) vs. ASML Holding N.V. (ASML)

Entegris (NASDAQ: ENTG) and ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitabiliy, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

97.9% of Entegris shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.8% of ASML Holding N.V. shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Entegris shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Entegris has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ASML Holding N.V. has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Entegris and ASML Holding N.V.’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	EBITDA	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Entegris	$1.25 billion	2.85	$298.17 million	$0.84	29.88
ASML Holding N.V.	$9.03 billion	N/A	$3.17 billion	$4.57	33.30

ASML Holding N.V. has higher revenue and earnings than Entegris. Entegris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ASML Holding N.V., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Entegris and ASML Holding N.V.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Entegris	9.63%	17.04%	9.28%
ASML Holding N.V.	23.69%	18.48%	10.71%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Entegris and ASML Holding N.V., as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Entegris	0	3	4	1	2.75
ASML Holding N.V.	0	8	10	0	2.56

Entegris currently has a consensus target price of $27.14, suggesting a potential upside of 8.14%. ASML Holding N.V. has a consensus target price of $160.67, suggesting a potential upside of 5.58%. Given Entegris’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Entegris is more favorable than ASML Holding N.V..

Dividends

ASML Holding N.V. pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Entegris does not pay a dividend. ASML Holding N.V. pays out 24.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

ASML Holding N.V. beats Entegris on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Entegris

Entegris, Inc. is a global developer, manufacturer and supplier of microcontamination control products, specialty chemicals and materials handling solutions for manufacturing processes in the semiconductor and other high-technology industries. The Company operates in three business segments: Specialty Chemicals and Engineered Materials (SCEM), Advanced Materials Handling (AMH) and Microcontamination Control (MC). The SCEM segment provides process chemistries, gases, materials and delivery systems to support semiconductor and other manufacturing processes. The AMH segment develops solutions to monitor, protect, transport, and deliver critical liquid chemistries and substrates for a set of applications in the semiconductor industry and other high-technology industries. AMH offers wafer solutions, chemical containers and fluidics. MC offers solutions to purify critical liquid chemistries and gases used in semiconductor manufacturing processes and other high-technology industries.

About ASML Holding N.V.

ASML Holding N.V. is a holding company. The Company is a manufacturer of chip-making equipment. The Company is engaged in the development, production, marketing, selling and servicing of semiconductor equipment systems, consisting of lithography systems. The Company’s products include systems, and installed base products and services. The Company’s principal operations are in the Netherlands, the United States and Asia. The Company offers TWINSCAN systems, equipped with lithography system with a mercury lamp as light source (i-line), Krypton Fluoride (KrF) and Argon Fluoride (ArF) light sources for 300 millimeter processing wafers for manufacturing environments for which imaging at a small resolution is required. TWINSCAN systems also include immersion lithography systems (TWINSCAN immersion systems). The Company also offers NXE systems, which are equipped with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source technology. The Company offers YieldStar, a wafer metrology system.