CLFD vs. ADTN, NTGR, AUDC, DZSI, AVYA, NSSC, ICHR, INDI, SHLS, and BELFA
Should you be buying Clearfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clearfield include ADTRAN (ADTN), NETGEAR (NTGR), AudioCodes (AUDC), DZS (DZSI), Avaya (AVYA), Napco Security Technologies (NSSC), Ichor (ICHR), indie Semiconductor (INDI), Shoals Technologies Group (SHLS), and Bel Fuse (BELFA).
ADTRAN (NASDAQ:ADTN) and Clearfield (NASDAQ:CLFD) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Clearfield had 2 more articles in the media than ADTRAN. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Clearfield and 4 mentions for ADTRAN. Clearfield's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat ADTRAN's score of 0.16 indicating that ADTRAN is being referred to more favorably in the media.
80.6% of ADTRAN shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Clearfield shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of ADTRAN shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Clearfield shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ADTRAN currently has a consensus price target of $7.67, indicating a potential upside of 18.31%. Clearfield has a consensus price target of $43.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.52%. Given Clearfield's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ADTRAN is more favorable than Clearfield.
ADTRAN received 145 more outperform votes than Clearfield when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.37% of users gave Clearfield an outperform vote while only 57.48% of users gave ADTRAN an outperform vote.
Clearfield has a net margin of -1.79% compared to Clearfield's net margin of -51.42%. ADTRAN's return on equity of -1.08% beat Clearfield's return on equity.
Clearfield has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ADTRAN. Clearfield is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ADTRAN, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ADTRAN has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clearfield has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Clearfield beats ADTRAN on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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