HPQ vs. HPE, JNPR, FFIV, ANET, GRMN, GLW, MDB, MTD, ZS, and ON
Should you be buying HP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HP include Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Juniper Networks (JNPR), F5 (FFIV), Arista Networks (ANET), Garmin (GRMN), Corning (GLW), MongoDB (MDB), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Zscaler (ZS), and Onsemi (ON). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) and HP (NYSE:HPQ) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
HP received 710 more outperform votes than Hewlett Packard Enterprise when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.44% of users gave Hewlett Packard Enterprise an outperform vote while only 60.94% of users gave HP an outperform vote.
HP has higher revenue and earnings than Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hewlett Packard Enterprise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.8% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of HP shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of HP shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a net margin of 6.81% compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's net margin of 6.45%. HP's return on equity of 9.12% beat Hewlett Packard Enterprise's return on equity.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise currently has a consensus price target of $17.91, suggesting a potential upside of 4.30%. HP has a consensus price target of $33.11, suggesting a potential upside of 17.12%. Given Hewlett Packard Enterprise's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HP is more favorable than Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. HP pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Hewlett Packard Enterprise pays out 35.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HP pays out 32.2% 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 increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and HP has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. HP is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HP has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, HP had 4 more articles in the media than Hewlett Packard Enterprise. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for HP and 18 mentions for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Hewlett Packard Enterprise's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat HP's score of 0.36 indicating that HP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
HP beats Hewlett Packard Enterprise on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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