NTAP vs. HPE, WDC, NTNX, SYNA, IMMR, IVAC, PSTG, STX, QMCO, and PANW
Should you be buying NetApp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NetApp include Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Western Digital (WDC), Nutanix (NTNX), Synaptics (SYNA), Immersion (IMMR), Intevac (IVAC), Pure Storage (PSTG), Seagate Technology (STX), Quantum (QMCO), and Palo Alto Networks (PANW).
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) and NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and community ranking.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. NetApp pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Hewlett Packard Enterprise pays out 38.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NetApp pays out 43.1% 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. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
80.8% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of NetApp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of NetApp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has higher revenue and earnings than NetApp. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NetApp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NetApp received 342 more outperform votes than Hewlett Packard Enterprise when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.11% of users gave Hewlett Packard Enterprise an outperform vote while only 53.87% of users gave NetApp an outperform vote.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise presently has a consensus target price of $20.69, indicating a potential upside of 3.31%. NetApp has a consensus target price of $113.38, indicating a potential downside of 6.29%. Given NetApp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Hewlett Packard Enterprise is more favorable than NetApp.
In the previous week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise had 53 more articles in the media than NetApp. MarketBeat recorded 71 mentions for Hewlett Packard Enterprise and 18 mentions for NetApp. Hewlett Packard Enterprise's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat NetApp's score of 0.76 indicating that NetApp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NetApp has a net margin of 15.73% compared to NetApp's net margin of 6.38%. Hewlett Packard Enterprise's return on equity of 114.54% beat NetApp's return on equity.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NetApp has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
NetApp beats Hewlett Packard Enterprise on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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