CFLT vs. FFIV, YMM, PCOR, ESTC, PATH, TOST, DUOL, DOCU, NICE, and SPSC
Should you be buying Confluent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Confluent include F5 (FFIV), Full Truck Alliance (YMM), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Elastic (ESTC), UiPath (PATH), Toast (TOST), Duolingo (DUOL), DocuSign (DOCU), NICE (NICE), and SPS Commerce (SPSC).
Confluent (NASDAQ:CFLT) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
In the previous week, Confluent had 15 more articles in the media than F5. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Confluent and 9 mentions for F5. F5's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Confluent's score of 0.33 indicating that F5 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Confluent presently has a consensus price target of $33.04, indicating a potential upside of 9.36%. F5 has a consensus price target of $185.10, indicating a potential upside of 9.46%. Given F5's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe F5 is more favorable than Confluent.
F5 has higher revenue and earnings than Confluent. Confluent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than F5, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
78.1% of Confluent shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of Confluent shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of F5 shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
F5 has a net margin of 17.91% compared to Confluent's net margin of -46.73%. F5's return on equity of 21.41% beat Confluent's return on equity.
Confluent has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
F5 received 1207 more outperform votes than Confluent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 45.25% of users gave Confluent an outperform vote.
Summary
F5 beats Confluent on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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