Compare Stocks: FFIV, NIPNF, HPE, and ATEN

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ATEN A10 Networks	$26.52 -0.9%	$29.16	$16.52 ▼ $38.49	$1.94B	1.13	1.17 million shs	982,648 shs
FFIV F5	$423.59 -1.7%	$403.70	$223.76 ▼ $435.45	$24.40B	1.03	444,363 shs	725,145 shs
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	$56.71 +1.5%	$52.05	$19.84 ▼ $64.25	$74.18B	1.43	24.08 million shs	23.97 million shs
NIPNF NEC	$31.20 -1.0%	$29.84	$21.65 ▼ $41.00	$8.13B	-0.47	20,130 shs	254 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ATEN A10 Networks	-0.48%	+7.23%	-2.68%	-20.37%	+52.15%
FFIV F5	-1.69%	+4.69%	+7.09%	+9.88%	+30.85%
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	+1.77%	-3.38%	-1.58%	+19.54%	+132.23%
NIPNF NEC	+3.15%	-5.02%	+2.31%	+21.15%	-0.41%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ATEN A10 Networks	$26.52 -0.9%	$29.16	$16.52 ▼ $38.49	$1.94B	1.13	1.17 million shs	982,648 shs
FFIV F5	$423.59 -1.7%	$403.70	$223.76 ▼ $435.45	$24.40B	1.03	444,363 shs	725,145 shs
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	$56.71 +1.5%	$52.05	$19.84 ▼ $64.25	$74.18B	1.43	24.08 million shs	23.97 million shs
NIPNF NEC	$31.20 -1.0%	$29.84	$21.65 ▼ $41.00	$8.13B	-0.47	20,130 shs	254 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ATEN A10 Networks	-0.48%	+7.23%	-2.68%	-20.37%	+52.15%
FFIV F5	-1.69%	+4.69%	+7.09%	+9.88%	+30.85%
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	+1.77%	-3.38%	-1.58%	+19.54%	+132.23%
NIPNF NEC	+3.15%	-5.02%	+2.31%	+21.15%	-0.41%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
ATEN A10 Networks	2.29	Hold	$30.88	16.43% Upside
FFIV F5	2.36	Hold	$416.63	-1.64% Downside
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	2.74	Moderate Buy	$69.18	21.98% Upside
NIPNF NEC	3.00	Buy	N/A	N/A

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest FFIV, NIPNF, HPE, and ATEN Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
9/15/2026	NIPNF NEC	Sanford C. Bernstein Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Outperform
9/14/2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Evercore Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Outperform ➝ In-Line	$65.00
9/4/2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Buy (B-) ➝ Buy (B)
9/4/2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold ➝ Strong-Buy
9/4/2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Argus Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$70.00
9/3/2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Raymond James Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$74.00 ➝ $86.00
9/3/2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Neutral	$63.00 ➝ $57.00
9/3/2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy	$74.00 ➝ $76.00
9/3/2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral	$65.00 ➝ $59.00
9/3/2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy	$69.00 ➝ $70.00
9/3/2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight	$69.00 ➝ $67.00

(Data available from 9/17/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
ATEN A10 Networks	$290.56M	6.63	$0.86 per share	30.90	$2.95 per share	8.99
FFIV F5	$3.09B	7.77	$13.50 per share	31.38	$62.53 per share	6.77
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	$34.30B	2.20	$5.00 per share	11.35	$20.02 per share	2.83
NIPNF NEC	$25.69B	0.32	N/A	N/A	N/A	∞

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
ATEN A10 Networks	$42.14M	$0.60	44.20	28.52	N/A	13.85%	23.63%	8.09%	11/3/2026 (Estimated)
FFIV F5	$692.38M	$12.56	33.73	30.11	4.21	21.95%	21.54%	12.16%	10/26/2026 (Estimated)
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	$57M	$1.92	29.54	13.38	0.50	6.60%	15.50%	5.00%	12/3/2026 (Estimated)
NIPNF NEC	$412.83M	$1.64	19.02	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	11/3/2026 (Estimated)

Latest FFIV, NIPNF, HPE, and ATEN Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
9/2/2026	Q3 2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	$0.9320	$1.11	+$0.1780	$1.06	$11.97 billion	$12.21 billion
8/5/2026	Q2 2026	ATEN A10 Networks	$0.2410	$0.25	+$0.0090	$0.12	$77.28 million	$80.14 million
7/27/2026	Q3 2026	FFIV F5	$4.00	$4.73	+$0.73	$3.62	$834.60 million	$865.08 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
ATEN A10 Networks	$0.24	0.91%	N/A	40.00%	N/A
FFIV F5	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	$0.57	1.01%	+1.61%	29.69%	2 Years
NIPNF NEC	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest FFIV, NIPNF, HPE, and ATEN Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
9/2/2026	HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	quarterly	$0.1425	1.01%	9/17/2026	9/17/2026	10/16/2026
8/5/2026	ATEN A10 Networks	quarterly	$0.06	0.88%	8/17/2026	8/17/2026	9/1/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
ATEN A10 Networks	N/A	1.29	1.21
FFIV F5	N/A	1.66	1.59
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	0.65	1.11	0.72
NIPNF NEC	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
ATEN A10 Networks	98.61%
FFIV F5	90.66%
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	80.78%
NIPNF NEC	N/A

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
ATEN A10 Networks	1.21%
FFIV F5	0.48%
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	0.44%
NIPNF NEC	N/A

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
ATEN A10 Networks	494	72.61 million	71.73 million	Optionable
FFIV F5	6,578	56.63 million	56.36 million	Optionable
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise	67,000	1.33 billion	1.32 billion	Optionable
NIPNF NEC	117,400	260.47 million	N/A	Not Optionable

FFIV, NIPNF, HPE, and ATEN Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

NEC spent decades developing quantum hardware, but it's time to leave

September 12, 2026 | msn.com

NEC discontinues quantum computer development, to continue related research

September 9, 2026 | mainichi.jpM

NEC has quietly quit quantum computing hardware development, report claims

September 8, 2026 | msn.com

NEC halts quantum computer project after decades of research

September 8, 2026 | cryptobriefing.comC

NEC to launch cybersecurity service using frontier AI

September 3, 2026 | www3.nhk.or.jpW

M'bishi Heavy, NEC to Form Defense Sector Partnership

September 2, 2026 | nippon.comN

NEC launches SCM AI Agent, targets 100 customers in five years

September 2, 2026 | jp.ibtimes.comJ

NEC (NIPNF): New Buy Recommendation for This Technology Giant

August 27, 2026 | theglobeandmail.com

UBS downgrades NEC (NIPNF) to a Hold

August 19, 2026 | theglobeandmail.com

NEC secures Japan defense contract to build first AI that hears submarines and earthquakes

August 19, 2026 | msn.com

NEC packs record 99.9 Wh battery into sub-kilogram Lavie BM94C business laptop

July 24, 2026 | msn.com

NEC to Absorb Key IT Subsidiary in AI-Focused Reorganization

July 9, 2026 | theglobeandmail.com

NEC Corp.

May 20, 2026 | marketwatch.com

Former NEC Director Gary Cohn: Rising oil prices will have an impact on U.S. consumption power

May 1, 2026 | cnbc.com

NEC Corporation India Appoints Ichiro Kurihara As President & CEO To Lead Its Next Phase Of Growth

April 22, 2026 | businessworld.inB

NEC acquires Exco Partners to bolster data and AI services

April 7, 2026 | crn.com.auC

Transgene and NEC Bio ink agreement to prepare the next steps of the development of TG4050 in head and neck cancer

April 6, 2026 | pharmabiz.comP

Transgene and NEC Bio Sign License Agreement to Prepare the Next Steps of the Development of TG4050 in Head and Neck Cancer

April 2, 2026 | markets.businessinsider.com

NEC, NTT DoCoMo open RAN venture names COO for global scale out

April 2, 2026 | sdxcentral.comS

DigitalBridge JV acquires NEC data centers in Japan

April 1, 2026 | datacenterdynamics.comD

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FFIV, NIPNF, HPE, and ATEN Company Descriptions

A10 Networks NYSE:ATEN

$26.52 -0.23 (-0.86%)

Closing price 09/16/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

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$26.56 +0.04 (+0.15%)

As of 08:44 AM Eastern

A10 Networks, Inc. provides networking solutions in the Americas, Japan, rest of Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company offers Thunder Application Delivery Controller that provides advanced server load balancing; Thunder Carrier Grade Networking, which provides standards-compliant address and protocol translation services between varying types of internet protocol addresses; Thunder Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Insight that decrypts SSL-encrypted traffic and forwards it to a third-party security device for deep packet inspection; and Thunder Convergent Firewall, which addresses multiple critical security capabilities in one package. It also provides intelligent management and automation tool comprising harmony controller that provides intelligent management, automation, and analytics for secure application delivery. In addition, the company offers A10 Defend Threat Control, a standalone SaaS platform; A10 Defend Orchestrator provides a centralized point of control for seamless distributed denial of service (DDoS) defense management and execution; A10 Defend Detector, a Netflow, Sflow, IPFIX-based DDoS detector used to easily manage the scale and heterogenous nature of SP networks; and A10 Defend Mitigator, a precision, automated, scalable, and intelligent DDoS mitigation solution. It delivers its solutions in optimized hardware appliances, bare metal software, containerized software, virtual appliances, and cloud-native software forms. The company serves cloud providers; cloud, telecommunications, and multiple system and cable service providers; government organizations; and enterprises in the telecommunications, technology, industrial, government, retail, financial, gaming, and education industries. It markets its products through sales organizations; and distribution channel partners, such as distributors, value added resellers, and system integrators. A10 Networks, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

F5 NASDAQ:FFIV

$423.59 -7.29 (-1.69%)

Closing price 09/16/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$430.42 +6.83 (+1.61%)

As of 08:48 AM Eastern

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.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise NYSE:HPE

$56.71 +0.83 (+1.49%)

Closing price 09/16/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$58.15 +1.44 (+2.54%)

As of 09:03 AM Eastern

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company provides solutions that allow customers to capture, analyze, and act upon data seamlessly in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Japan. It operates in six segments: Compute, HPC & AI, Storage, Intelligent Edge, Financial Services, and Corporate Investments and Other. The company offers general purpose servers for multi-workload computing and workload-optimized servers; HPE ProLiant rack and tower servers; HPE Synergy; HPE Alletra, HPE GreenLake, Zerto, HPE InfoSight, and HPE CloudPhysics storage products; HPE Cray EX, HPE Cray XD, and converged edge systems; and HPE Superdome Flex, HPE Nonstop, and HPE Integrity products. It also provides HPE Aruba products that includes hardware products, such as Wi-Fi access points, switches, and gateways; HPE Aruba Networking software and services comprising cloud-based management, network management and access control, analytics and assurance, software-defined wide-area networking, network security, analytics and assurance, and location services software; and professional and support services, as well as as-a-service and consumption models. In addition, the company offers leasing, financing, IT consumption, and utility programs and asset management services for customers to facilitate technology deployment models and the acquisition of various IT solutions, including hardware, software, and services from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others; consultative-led services; HPE Ezmeral Container Platform; HPE Ezmeral Software Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral Software Data Fabric; OpsRamp; and Hewlett Packard Labs. It serves commercial and large enterprise groups, such as business and public sector enterprises; and through various partners comprising resellers, distribution partners, original equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors, systems integrators, and advisory firms. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Spring, Texas.

NEC OTCMKTS:NIPNF

$31.20 -0.30 (-0.95%)

As of 09/16/2026 03:07 PM Eastern

NEC Corporation provides information and communication technology solutions in Japan and internationally. It operates through five segments: Public Solutions Business, Public Infrastructure Business, Enterprise Business, Network Services Business, and Global Business. It provides systems integration services, including systems implementation and consulting; maintenance and support services; outsourcing and cloud services; and system equipment. The company also offers network infrastructure products comprising core network equipment, mobile phone base stations, optical transmission systems, and routers and switches; and services and management solutions, such as operation support system (OSS), business support system (BSS), and services. In addition, it provides digital government and digital finance solutions; software services for service providers, including OSS/BSS; and network infrastructure comprising submarine systems and wireless backhaul. Further, the company offers business computers, servers, NEC HPC solutions, and thin client solutions; data storage solutions; embedded systems; fiber optic devices; CONNEXIVE, an IoT platform software; PASOLINK, a mobile backhaul; optical fiber sensing products; submarine systems; and open optical transport products. Additionally, it provides EXPRESSCLUSTER X, a BC/DR solutions; NIAS, a solution for file server management; ERP solutions; MasterScope, an integrated administration software suite; Obbligato, a product lifecycle management; SaaS Solutions; WebOTX, a service execution platform; and unified communications and collaboration solutions. It serves aerospace, agriculture, aviation, broadcasting, finance, government, healthcare, hospitality, logistics, manufacturing, retail, telecom, and transportation industries. The company was formerly known as Nippon Electric Company, Limited and changed its name to NEC Corporation in April 1983. NEC Corporation was incorporated in 1899 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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