CSCO vs. QCOM, PANW, ANET, MSI, JNPR, FFIV, CIEN, SATS, IDCC, and CALX
Should you be buying Cisco Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cisco Systems include QUALCOMM (QCOM), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Arista Networks (ANET), Motorola Solutions (MSI), Juniper Networks (JNPR), F5 (FFIV), Ciena (CIEN), EchoStar (SATS), InterDigital (IDCC), and Calix (CALX). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM) and Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
QUALCOMM pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Cisco Systems pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. QUALCOMM pays out 45.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cisco Systems pays out 53.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. QUALCOMM has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years and Cisco Systems has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Cisco Systems received 171 more outperform votes than QUALCOMM when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.77% of users gave QUALCOMM an outperform vote while only 73.26% of users gave Cisco Systems an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cisco Systems had 4 more articles in the media than QUALCOMM. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Cisco Systems and 29 mentions for QUALCOMM. Cisco Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat QUALCOMM's score of 0.60 indicating that QUALCOMM is being referred to more favorably in the media.
QUALCOMM currently has a consensus price target of $188.74, suggesting a potential downside of 8.65%. Cisco Systems has a consensus price target of $56.47, suggesting a potential upside of 23.19%. Given QUALCOMM's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cisco Systems is more favorable than QUALCOMM.
QUALCOMM has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cisco Systems has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
74.4% of QUALCOMM shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.3% of Cisco Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of QUALCOMM shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Cisco Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
QUALCOMM has a net margin of 23.03% compared to QUALCOMM's net margin of 21.88%. Cisco Systems' return on equity of 37.09% beat QUALCOMM's return on equity.
Cisco Systems has higher revenue and earnings than QUALCOMM. Cisco Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than QUALCOMM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
QUALCOMM beats Cisco Systems on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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