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CompanyCurrent Price50-Day Moving Average52-Week RangeMarket CapBetaAvg. VolumeToday's Volume
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
$93.85
-4.1%
$86.61
$49.21
$101.44
$13.27B1.112.25 million shs2.23 million shs
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
$313.22
-1.6%
$305.83
$197.34
$334.00
$17.99B1.03537,128 shs593,256 shs
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
$44.24
+0.7%
$42.98
$37.58
$47.35
$186.53B0.3621.18 million shs14.60 million shs
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Company1-Day Performance7-Day Performance30-Day Performance90-Day Performance1-Year Performance
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
+5.35%+12.09%+7.45%+22.36%+71.74%
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
+0.21%+1.33%+6.40%+13.02%+60.09%
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
-0.70%-2.40%+2.92%+0.07%+5.90%
CompanyOverall ScoreAnalyst's OpinionShort Interest ScoreDividend StrengthESG ScoreNews and Social Media SentimentCompany OwnershipEarnings & Valuation
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
4.1062 of 5 stars
2.43.00.03.92.22.51.9
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
4.0947 of 5 stars
2.13.00.03.73.12.51.9
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
4.6909 of 5 stars
2.33.05.03.53.01.71.9
CompanyConsensus Rating ScoreConsensus RatingConsensus Price Target% Upside from Current Price
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
2.73
Moderate Buy$86.69-7.63% Downside
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
2.18
Hold$309.89-1.06% Downside
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
2.60
Moderate Buy$47.357.04% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest FFIV, CIEN, and VZ Analyst Ratings

DateCompanyBrokerageActionRatingPrice TargetDetails
8/29/2025
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
Rosenblatt Securities
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Boost Price TargetNeutral ➝ Neutral$78.00 ➝ $100.00
7/31/2025
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
Barclays
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Boost Price TargetEqual Weight ➝ Equal Weight$274.00 ➝ $321.00
7/31/2025
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
Morgan Stanley
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Boost Price TargetEqual Weight ➝ Equal Weight$305.00 ➝ $312.00
7/31/2025
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
Royal Bank Of Canada
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Boost Price TargetSector Perform ➝ Sector Perform$314.00 ➝ $326.00
7/31/2025
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
Piper Sandler
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Boost Price TargetNeutral ➝ Neutral$304.00 ➝ $355.00
7/31/2025
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
Needham & Company LLC
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Boost Price TargetBuy ➝ Buy$320.00 ➝ $345.00
7/22/2025
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
Bank of America
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Boost Price TargetNeutral ➝ Neutral$45.00 ➝ $49.00
7/22/2025
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
Morgan Stanley
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Boost Price TargetEqual Weight ➝ Equal Weight$47.00 ➝ $48.00
7/22/2025
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
Royal Bank Of Canada
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Boost Price TargetSector Perform ➝ Sector Perform$45.00 ➝ $46.00
7/22/2025
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Boost Price TargetNeutral ➝ Neutral$47.00 ➝ $49.00
7/18/2025
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
Morgan Stanley
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Boost Price TargetEqual Weight ➝ Equal Weight$280.00 ➝ $305.00
(Data available from 8/29/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)
CompanyAnnual RevenuePrice/SalesCashflowPrice/CashBook ValuePrice/Book
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
$4.26B3.11$1.90 per share49.41$19.50 per share4.81
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
$3.02B5.95$12.30 per share25.46$60.43 per share5.18
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
$134.79B1.38$8.85 per share5.00$24.75 per share1.79
CompanyNet IncomeEPSTrailing P/E RatioForward P/E RatioP/E GrowthNet MarginsReturn on Equity (ROE)Return on Assets (ROA)Next Earnings Date
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
$83.96M$0.72130.3536.802.072.46%5.08%2.55%9/4/2025 (Confirmed)
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
$566.78M$11.3527.6026.323.6722.06%21.77%12.17%10/27/2025 (Estimated)
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
$17.51B$4.2910.319.103.4113.28%19.61%5.19%10/28/2025 (Estimated)

Latest FFIV, CIEN, and VZ Earnings

DateQuarterCompanyConsensus EstimateReported EPSBeat/MissGap EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueDetails
9/4/2025Q3 2025
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
$0.52N/AN/AN/A$1.18 billionN/A
7/30/2025Q3 2025
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
$3.49$4.16+$0.67$3.25$750.64 million$780.37 million
7/21/2025Q2 2025
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
$1.19$1.22+$0.03$1.19$33.47 billion$34.50 billion
6/5/2025Q2 2025
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
$0.50$0.42-$0.08$0.06$1.09 billion$1.13 billion
CompanyAnnual PayoutDividend Yield3-Year Dividend GrowthPayout RatioYears of Consecutive Growth
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
$2.716.13%N/A63.17%20 Years

Latest FFIV, CIEN, and VZ Dividends

AnnouncementCompanyPeriodAmountYieldEx-Dividend DateRecord DatePayable Date
6/6/2025
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
quarterly$0.67756.22%7/10/20257/10/20258/1/2025
(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)
CompanyDebt-to-Equity RatioCurrent RatioQuick Ratio
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
0.55
3.40
2.57
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
N/A
1.60
1.56
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
1.19
0.64
0.60

Institutional Ownership

CompanyInstitutional Ownership
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
91.99%
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
90.66%
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
62.06%

Insider Ownership

CompanyInsider Ownership
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
0.93%
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
0.52%
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
0.10%
CompanyEmployeesShares OutstandingFree FloatOptionable
Ciena Corporation stock logo
CIEN
Ciena
8,657141.37 million140.05 millionOptionable
F5, Inc. stock logo
FFIV
F5
7,09057.45 million57.15 millionOptionable
Verizon Communications Inc. stock logo
VZ
Verizon Communications
99,6004.22 billion4.21 billionOptionable

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Ciena NYSE:CIEN

$93.85 -4.04 (-4.13%)
Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern
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$92.98 -0.87 (-0.93%)
As of 04:20 PM Eastern
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Ciena Corporation provides hardware and software services for delivery of video, data, and voice traffic metro, aggregation, and access communications network worldwide. The company's Networking Platforms segment offers convergence of coherent optical transport, open optical networking, optical transport network switching, IP routing, and switching services. Its products include 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, Waveserver stackable interconnect system, and the 6500 Reconfigurable line system, and the 5400 family of Packet-Optical platforms, as well as 8100 coherent routing platforms; 3000 family of service delivery switches and the 5000 family of service aggregation switches, as well as 8700 Packetwave Platform and 6500 Packet Transport System. This segment also sells operating system software and enhanced software features embedded in each of its products. The company's Blue Planet Automation Software and Services segment provides multi-domain service orchestration, inventory, route optimization and analysis, multi-cloud orchestration, and unified assurance and analytics services. Its Platform Software and Service segment offers MCP domain controller solution, and OneControl unified management system, as well as planning tools. The company's Global Services segment provides maintenance support and training, installation and deployment, and consulting and network design services. Ciena Corporation was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland.

F5 stock logo

F5 NASDAQ:FFIV

$313.22 -5.18 (-1.63%)
Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern
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$313.20 -0.02 (0.00%)
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F5, Inc. provides multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. The company's distributed cloud services enable its customers to deploy, secure, and operate applications in any architecture, from on-premises to the public cloud. It offers unified, security, networking, and application management solutions, such as web app and API protection; multi-cloud networking; application delivery and deployment; domain name system; content delivery network; and application deployment and orchestration. The company also provides application security and delivery products, including NGINX Plus; NGINX Management Suite; NGINX Ingress Controller; NGINX App Protect; BIG-IP Packaged Software; and BIG-IP Systems. In addition, it provides a range of professional services, including maintenance, consulting, training, and other technical support services. F5, Inc. sells its products to large enterprise businesses, public sector institutions, governments, and service providers through distributors, value-added resellers, managed service providers, systems integrators, and other indirect channel partners. It has partnerships with public cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The company was formerly known as F5 Networks, Inc. and changed its name to F5, Inc. in November 2021. F5, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Verizon Communications stock logo

Verizon Communications NYSE:VZ

$44.24 +0.31 (+0.70%)
Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern
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Verizon Communications Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of communications, technology, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental entities worldwide. It operates in two segments, Verizon Consumer Group (Consumer) and Verizon Business Group (Business). The Consumer segment provides wireless services across the wireless networks in the United States under the Verizon and TracFone brands and through wholesale and other arrangements; and fixed wireless access (FWA) broadband through its wireless networks, as well as related equipment and devices, such as smartphones, tablets, smart watches, and other wireless-enabled connected devices. The segment also offers wireline services in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, as well as Washington D.C. through its fiber-optic network, Verizon Fios product portfolio, and a copper-based network. The Business segment provides wireless and wireline communications services and products, including FWA broadband, data, video and conferencing, corporate networking, security and managed network, local and long-distance voice, and network access services to deliver various IoT services and products to businesses, government customers, and wireless and wireline carriers in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as Bell Atlantic Corporation and changed its name to Verizon Communications Inc. in June 2000. Verizon Communications Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in New York, New York.