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IMAX vs LRCX

Side-by-side comparison of Imax Corporation (IMAX) and Lam Research Corporation (LRCX): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • IMAX operates in Consumer Discretionary, while LRCX operates in Technology - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • LRCX is the larger of the two at $322.47B, about 154.2x IMAX ($2.09B).
  • Over the past year, IMAX is up 49.0% and LRCX is up 260.2% - LRCX leads by 211.3 points.
  • IMAX has been more active in the news (13 items in the past 4 weeks vs 4 for LRCX).
  • LRCX has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 10 for IMAX).
PerformanceIMAX+48.96%LRCX+260.25%
2025-05-01+0.00%2026-05-01
MetricIMAXLRCX
Company
Imax Corporation
Lam Research Corporation
Price
$35.96-5.44%
$258.40+0.23%
Market cap
$2.09B
$322.47B
1M return
-6.94%
+16.35%
1Y return
+48.96%
+260.25%
Industry
Industrial Machinery/Components
Industrial Machinery/Components
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
1984
News (4w)
13
4
Recent ratings
10
25
IMAX

Imax Corporation

IMAX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an entertainment technology company worldwide. It offers cinematic solution comprising proprietary software, theater architecture, intellectual property, and specialized equipment. The company offers IMAX Digital Re-Mastering (DMR), a proprietary technology that digitally enhances the image resolution, visual clarity, and sound quality of motion picture films for projection on IMAX screens; IMAX theater systems to exhibitor customers through sales, leases, and joint revenue sharing arrangements; digital projection systems; a digital theater control systems; and a digital audio systems. It also provides proactive and emergency maintenance services to the IMAX network; licenses film content and distributes large-format documentary films; film post-production and quality control services for large-format films, and digital post-production services; owns and operates IMAX theaters; and rents 2D and 3D large-format film and digital cameras, as well as offers production advice and technical assistance services to documentary and Hollywood filmmakers. The company markets its theater systems through a direct sales force and marketing staff to science and natural history museums, zoos, aquaria, and other educational and cultural centers, as well as theme parks, private home theaters, tourist destination sites, fairs, and expositions. It owns or otherwise has rights to trademarks and trade names, which include IMAX, IMAX Dome, IMAX 3D, IMAX 3D Dome, Experience It in IMAX, The IMAX Experience, An IMAX Experience, An IMAX 3D Experience, IMAX DMR, DMR, IMAX nXos, and Films To The Fullest. As of December 31, 2020, the company had a network of 1,650 IMAX theater systems comprising 1,562 commercial multiplexes, 12 commercial destinations, and 76 institutional facilities operating in 81 countries and territories. IMAX Corporation was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

LRCX

Lam Research Corporation

Lam Research Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, refurbishes, and services semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. The company offers ALTUS systems to deposit conformal films for tungsten metallization applications; SABRE electrochemical deposition products for copper interconnect transition that offers copper damascene manufacturing; SOLA ultraviolet thermal processing products for film treatments; and VECTOR plasma-enhanced CVD ALD products. It also provides SPEED gapfill high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition products; and Striker single-wafer atomic layer deposition products for dielectric film solutions. In addition, the company offers Flex for dielectric etch applications; Kiyo for conductor etch applications; Syndion for through-silicon via etch applications; and Versys metal products for metal etch processes. Further, it provides Coronus bevel clean products to enhance die yield; Da Vinci, DV-Prime, EOS, and SP series products to address various wafer cleaning applications; and Metryx mass metrology systems for high precision in-line mass measurement in semiconductor wafer manufacturing. The company sells its products and services to semiconductors industry in the United States, China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and internationally. Lam Research Corporation was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

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