CFLT vs. FFIV, TOST, NICE, XM, CLDR, HUBS, MSTR, VEEV, TTWO, and ANSS
Should you be buying Confluent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Confluent include F5 (FFIV), Toast (TOST), NICE (NICE), Qualtrics International (XM), Cloudera (CLDR), HubSpot (HUBS), MicroStrategy (MSTR), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), and ANSYS (ANSS).
Confluent (NASDAQ:CFLT) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and community ranking.
F5 received 1206 more outperform votes than Confluent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 45.56% of users gave Confluent an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Confluent had 1 more articles in the media than F5. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Confluent and 16 mentions for F5. Confluent's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat F5's score of 0.79 indicating that Confluent is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
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 owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Confluent shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of F5 shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Confluent presently has a consensus target price of $33.04, indicating a potential upside of 28.15%. F5 has a consensus target price of $185.10, indicating a potential upside of 11.80%. Given Confluent's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Confluent is more favorable than F5.
Confluent has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
F5 beats Confluent on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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