FN vs. CIEN, LYFT, HCP, UI, QLYS, KT, ZI, S, BILL, and SAIC
Should you be buying Fabrinet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fabrinet include Ciena (CIEN), Lyft (LYFT), HashiCorp (HCP), Ubiquiti (UI), Qualys (QLYS), KT (KT), ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), SentinelOne (S), BILL (BILL), and Science Applications International (SAIC). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) and Fabrinet (NYSE:FN) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
Ciena presently has a consensus price target of $58.79, suggesting a potential upside of 23.06%. Fabrinet has a consensus price target of $159.57, suggesting a potential downside of 10.96%. Given Fabrinet's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Ciena is more favorable than Fabrinet.
Ciena has higher revenue and earnings than Fabrinet. Fabrinet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ciena, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ciena has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Fabrinet has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fabrinet has a net margin of 9.35% compared to Fabrinet's net margin of 5.22%. Ciena's return on equity of 17.27% beat Fabrinet's return on equity.
Ciena received 598 more outperform votes than Fabrinet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.62% of users gave Ciena an outperform vote while only 74.19% of users gave Fabrinet an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Ciena had 1 more articles in the media than Fabrinet. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Ciena and 8 mentions for Fabrinet. Ciena's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Fabrinet's score of 0.68 indicating that Fabrinet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.0% of Ciena shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Fabrinet shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ciena shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Fabrinet shares are held 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.
Summary
Ciena beats Fabrinet on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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