Comparing Fabrinet (NYSE:FN) and Advanced Deposition Technologies (OTCMKTS:ADTC)

Advanced Deposition Technologies (OTCMKTS:ADTC) and Fabrinet (NYSE:FN) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Advanced Deposition Technologies and Fabrinet’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Advanced Deposition Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fabrinet	10.00%	17.99%	13.26%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Advanced Deposition Technologies and Fabrinet”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Advanced Deposition Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fabrinet	$2.88 billion	4.00	$296.18 million	$8.98	35.84

Fabrinet has higher revenue and earnings than Advanced Deposition Technologies.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Advanced Deposition Technologies and Fabrinet, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Advanced Deposition Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
Fabrinet	0	4	3	0	2.43

Fabrinet has a consensus price target of $261.3333, indicating a potential downside of 18.81%. Given Advanced Deposition Technologies’ higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Advanced Deposition Technologies is more favorable than Fabrinet.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

97.4% of Fabrinet shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.5% of Advanced Deposition Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Fabrinet shares are owned by company 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

Fabrinet beats Advanced Deposition Technologies on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Advanced Deposition Technologies

Advanced Deposition Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiary, Tahou Natural Resources Development Co., Ltd. develops oil and gas reserves in Japan. It owns approximately 743 acres of oil and gas reserves located in Atsuma-cho, Yufutsu-Gun, Iburino-Kuni, Tomakomai, and Hokkaido in Japan. The company was formerly known as Advanced Dielectric Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Advanced Deposition Technologies, Inc. in July 1993. Advanced Deposition Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1985 is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

About Fabrinet

Fabrinet provides optical packaging and precision optical, electro-mechanical, and electronic manufacturing services in North America, the Asia-Pacific, and Europe. The company offers a range of advanced optical and electro-mechanical capabilities in the manufacturing process, including process design and engineering, supply chain management, manufacturing, printed circuit board assembly, advanced packaging, integration, final assembly, and testing. Its products include switching products, including reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers, optical amplifiers, modulators, and other optical components and modules that enable network managers to route voice, video, and data communications traffic through fiber optic cables at various wavelengths, speeds, and over various distances. The company's products also comprise tunable lasers, transceivers, and transponders; and active optical cables, which provide high-speed interconnect capabilities for data centers and computing clusters, as well as Infiniband, Ethernet, fiber channel, and optical backplane connectivity. In addition, it provides solid state, diode-pumped, gas, and fiber lasers used in semiconductor processing, biotechnology and medical device, metrology, and material processing industries; and differential pressure, micro-gyro, fuel, and other sensors used in automobiles, as well as non-contact temperature measurement sensors for the medical industry. Further, the company designs and fabricates application-specific crystals, lenses, prisms, mirrors, laser components, and substrates; and other custom and standard borosilicate, clear fused quartz, and synthetic fused silica glass products. It serves original equipment manufacturers of optical communication components, modules and sub-systems, industrial lasers, automotive components, medical devices, and sensors. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Grand Cayman, the Cayman Islands.