FFIV vs. JNPR, CIEN, SATS, IDCC, VSAT, CALX, EXTR, INFN, HLIT, and ATEN
Should you be buying F5 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of F5 include Juniper Networks (JNPR), Ciena (CIEN), EchoStar (SATS), InterDigital (IDCC), Viasat (VSAT), Calix (CALX), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Infinera (INFN), Harmonic (HLIT), and A10 Networks (ATEN). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
Juniper Networks has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
F5 has a net margin of 17.91% compared to F5's net margin of 4.19%. Juniper Networks' return on equity of 21.41% beat F5's return on equity.
92.0% of Juniper Networks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Juniper Networks shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of F5 shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
F5 received 214 more outperform votes than Juniper Networks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 59.34% of users gave Juniper Networks an outperform vote.
F5 has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Juniper Networks. F5 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Juniper Networks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Juniper Networks had 5 more articles in the media than F5. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Juniper Networks and 21 mentions for F5. Juniper Networks' average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat F5's score of 0.40 indicating that F5 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Juniper Networks presently has a consensus price target of $35.27, suggesting a potential downside of 5.31%. F5 has a consensus price target of $187.33, suggesting a potential upside of 5.64%. Given Juniper Networks' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe F5 is more favorable than Juniper Networks.
Summary
F5 beats Juniper Networks on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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