FFIV vs. JNPR, EXTR, DGII, ATEN, LTRX, SILC, HPE, HPQ, PATH, and QRVO
Should you be buying F5 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of F5 include Juniper Networks (JNPR), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Digi International (DGII), A10 Networks (ATEN), Lantronix (LTRX), Silicom (SILC), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), HP (HPQ), UiPath (PATH), and Qorvo (QRVO). 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 superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
92.0% of Juniper Networks shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Juniper Networks shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of F5 shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Juniper Networks had 3 more articles in the media than F5. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Juniper Networks and 12 mentions for F5. Juniper Networks' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat F5's score of 0.25 indicating that F5 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Juniper Networks has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Juniper Networks presently has a consensus target price of $34.27, suggesting a potential downside of 1.94%. F5 has a consensus target price of $192.22, suggesting a potential upside of 5.70%. Given Juniper Networks' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe F5 is more favorable than Juniper Networks.
F5 has a net margin of 16.43% compared to F5's net margin of 5.57%. Juniper Networks' return on equity of 20.81% beat F5's return on equity.
F5 received 214 more outperform votes than Juniper Networks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.38% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 59.81% 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.
Summary
F5 beats Juniper Networks on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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