PANW vs. CRWD, FTNT, ZS, NET, QCOM, CSCO, MSI, JNPR, FFIV, and CIEN
Should you be buying Palo Alto Networks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Palo Alto Networks include CrowdStrike (CRWD), Fortinet (FTNT), Zscaler (ZS), Cloudflare (NET), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Motorola Solutions (MSI), Juniper Networks (JNPR), F5 (FFIV), and Ciena (CIEN). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
Palo Alto Networks received 1685 more outperform votes than CrowdStrike when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.64% of users gave Palo Alto Networks an outperform vote while only 67.62% of users gave CrowdStrike an outperform vote.
Palo Alto Networks has higher revenue and earnings than CrowdStrike. Palo Alto Networks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CrowdStrike, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Palo Alto Networks has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CrowdStrike presently has a consensus target price of $373.18, suggesting a potential upside of 7.60%. Palo Alto Networks has a consensus target price of $321.39, suggesting a potential upside of 4.35%. Given Palo Alto Networks' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe CrowdStrike is more favorable than Palo Alto Networks.
71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Palo Alto Networks shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Palo Alto Networks shares are owned by company 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.
Palo Alto Networks has a net margin of 31.42% compared to Palo Alto Networks' net margin of 2.92%. CrowdStrike's return on equity of 32.74% beat Palo Alto Networks' return on equity.
In the previous week, Palo Alto Networks had 16 more articles in the media than CrowdStrike. MarketBeat recorded 62 mentions for Palo Alto Networks and 46 mentions for CrowdStrike. Palo Alto Networks' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat CrowdStrike's score of 0.47 indicating that CrowdStrike is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Palo Alto Networks beats CrowdStrike on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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