We will be contrasting the differences between Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (NYSE:SMI) and EMCORE Corporation (NASDAQ:EMKR) as far as institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation are concerned. The two businesses are rivals in the Semiconductor – Integrated Circuits industry.

Earnings and Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation	3.36B	1.55	127.75M	0.13	38.73
EMCORE Corporation	85.58M	1.35	22.91M	-0.84	0.00

Table 1 demonstrates Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and EMCORE Corporation’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 provides us Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and EMCORE Corporation’s return on assets, return on equity and net margins.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation	3.80%	2.8%	1.2%
EMCORE Corporation	-26.77%	-20.9%	-17%

Volatility & Risk

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation has a 0.81 beta, while its volatility is 19.00% which is less volatile than S&P 500. In other hand, EMCORE Corporation has beta of 0.15 which is 85.00% less volatile than S&P 500.

Liquidity

2.1 and 1.8 are the respective Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation. Its rival EMCORE Corporation’s Current and Quick Ratios are 4.1 and 3.4 respectively. EMCORE Corporation has a better chance of clearing its pay short and long-term debts than Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation and EMCORE Corporation has shares owned by institutional investors as follows: 1.3% and 63.3%. Comparatively, 1.7% are EMCORE Corporation’s share owned by insiders.

Performance

In this table we show the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation	-3.89%	9.96%	10.9%	-11.43%	-20.88%	21.26%
EMCORE Corporation	-2.63%	-7.06%	-7.48%	-16.31%	-20%	-2.86%

For the past year Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation has 21.26% stronger performance while EMCORE Corporation has -2.86% weaker performance.

Summary

On 10 of the 11 factors Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation beats EMCORE Corporation.

EMCORE Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells indium phosphide optical chips, components, subsystems, and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber optics market worldwide. It offers DFB laser modules and diodes, laser and avalanche chips, optical receivers, and broadband photodiodes for use in telecommunication, cable television, fiber-to-the-premises, defense and homeland security, satellite communication and broadcast, and professional audio/video applications. The company sells its products through direct sales force, application engineers, third party sales representatives, and distributors. EMCORE Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Alhambra, California.