Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT – Get Free Report) and Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ:AEHR – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Allient and Aehr Test Systems’ top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Allient | $502.99 million | 1.06 | $17.39 million | $1.45 | 22.71 |
| Aehr Test Systems | $64.96 million | 22.09 | $14.56 million | $0.50 | 99.80 |
Allient has higher revenue and earnings than Aehr Test Systems. Allient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aehr Test Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility & Risk
Profitability
This table compares Allient and Aehr Test Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Allient | 4.19% | 15.85% | 5.99% |
| Aehr Test Systems | 22.41% | 23.07% | 18.68% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Allient and Aehr Test Systems, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Allient | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Aehr Test Systems | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
Aehr Test Systems has a consensus price target of $60.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.24%. Given Aehr Test Systems’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aehr Test Systems is more favorable than Allient.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
61.2% of Allient shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.8% of Aehr Test Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 16.5% of Allient shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.3% of Aehr Test Systems shares are held 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.
Summary
Aehr Test Systems beats Allient on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Allient
Allient Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells precision and specialty controlled motion components and systems for various industries worldwide. It offers brush and brushless DC motors, brushless servo and torque motors, coreless DC motors, integrated brushless motor-drives, gearmotors, gearing, modular digital servo drives, motion controllers, optical encoders, active and passive filters, input/output modules, industrial communications gateways, light-weighting technologies, and other controlled motion-related products. The company sells its products to end customers and original equipment manufacturers in vehicle, medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets through direct sales force, authorized manufacturers' representatives, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Allied Motion Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Allient Inc. in August 2023. Allient Inc. was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Amherst, New York.
About Aehr Test Systems
Aehr Test Systems provides test systems for burning-in semiconductor devices in wafer level, singulated die, and package part form worldwide. Its products include ABTS system that is used in the production and qualification testing of packaged parts for lower power and higher power logic devices, as well as for common types of memory devices; and FOX-XP and FOX-NP systems that are full wafer contact and singulated die/module test and burn-in systems for burn-in and functional test of complex devices, such as leading-edge silicon carbide-based power semiconductors, memories, digital signal processors, microprocessors, microcontrollers, systems-on-a-chip, and integrated optical devices. The company's products also comprise FOX-CP system, a single-wafer compact test and reliability verification solution for logic, memory, and photonic devices; FOX WaferPak Aligner; FOX WaferPak Contactor, which contains a full wafer probe card capable of testing wafers up to 300mm that enables IC manufacturers to perform test and burn-in of full wafers on its FOX systems; FOX DiePak Carrier, a reusable temporary package that enables IC manufacturers to perform final test and burn-in of bare die and modules; and FOX DiePak Loader. Aehr Test Systems was incorporated in 1977 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
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