JNPR vs. FFIV, HPE, HPQ, ONTO, ALAB, TWLO, BRKR, SNX, EPAM, and WWD
Should you be buying Juniper Networks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Juniper Networks include F5 (FFIV), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), HP (HPQ), Onto Innovation (ONTO), Astera Labs (ALAB), Twilio (TWLO), Bruker (BRKR), TD SYNNEX (SNX), EPAM Systems (EPAM), and Woodward (WWD). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Juniper Networks presently has a consensus price target of $34.55, indicating a potential downside of 0.27%. F5 has a consensus price target of $185.10, indicating a potential upside of 6.30%. Given F5's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe F5 is more favorable than Juniper Networks.
92.0% of Juniper Networks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Juniper Networks shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of F5 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Juniper Networks has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
F5 has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Juniper Networks. F5 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Juniper Networks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
F5 received 215 more outperform votes than Juniper Networks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 59.68% of users gave Juniper Networks an outperform vote.
F5 has a net margin of 17.91% compared to Juniper Networks' net margin of 4.19%. F5's return on equity of 21.41% beat Juniper Networks' return on equity.
In the previous week, F5 had 5 more articles in the media than Juniper Networks. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for F5 and 8 mentions for Juniper Networks. F5's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Juniper Networks' score of 0.71 indicating that F5 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
F5 beats Juniper Networks on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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