CLFD vs. NTGR, ADTN, AUDC, AKTS, DZSI, MINM, INFN, YRD, DAKT, and ATNI
Should you be buying Clearfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clearfield include NETGEAR (NTGR), ADTRAN (ADTN), AudioCodes (AUDC), Akoustis Technologies (AKTS), DZS (DZSI), Minim (MINM), Infinera (INFN), Yiren Digital (YRD), Daktronics (DAKT), and ATN International (ATNI).
Clearfield (NASDAQ:CLFD) and NETGEAR (NASDAQ:NTGR) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Clearfield currently has a consensus price target of $42.20, indicating a potential upside of 45.32%. NETGEAR has a consensus price target of $23.50, indicating a potential upside of 61.29%. Given NETGEAR's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NETGEAR is more favorable than Clearfield.
Clearfield has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NETGEAR. NETGEAR is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clearfield, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clearfield has a net margin of 6.00% compared to NETGEAR's net margin of -14.14%. Clearfield's return on equity of 4.22% beat NETGEAR's return on equity.
Clearfield has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NETGEAR has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Clearfield had 8 more articles in the media than NETGEAR. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Clearfield and 1 mentions for NETGEAR. Clearfield's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat NETGEAR's score of 0.00 indicating that Clearfield is being referred to more favorably in the media.
88.7% of Clearfield shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of NETGEAR shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of Clearfield shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of NETGEAR shares are held 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.
NETGEAR received 65 more outperform votes than Clearfield when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.47% of users gave NETGEAR an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Clearfield an outperform vote.
Summary
Clearfield beats NETGEAR on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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