INFN vs. IDCC, CALX, EXTR, HLIT, VSAT, DGII, BELFB, NTGR, ADTN, and RBBN
Should you be buying Infinera stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Infinera include InterDigital (IDCC), Calix (CALX), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Harmonic (HLIT), Viasat (VSAT), Digi International (DGII), Bel Fuse (BELFB), NETGEAR (NTGR), ADTRAN (ADTN), and Ribbon Communications (RBBN). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment" industry.
Infinera vs.
InterDigital (NASDAQ:IDCC) and Infinera (NASDAQ:INFN) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Infinera received 214 more outperform votes than InterDigital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.34% of users gave Infinera an outperform vote while only 62.37% of users gave InterDigital an outperform vote.
InterDigital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Infinera. Infinera is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InterDigital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.8% of InterDigital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.5% of Infinera shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of InterDigital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Infinera shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
InterDigital has a net margin of 36.69% compared to Infinera's net margin of -7.62%. InterDigital's return on equity of 40.49% beat Infinera's return on equity.
InterDigital presently has a consensus price target of $120.00, indicating a potential downside of 32.41%. Infinera has a consensus price target of $7.09, indicating a potential upside of 7.36%. Given Infinera's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Infinera is more favorable than InterDigital.
InterDigital has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Infinera has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, InterDigital had 3 more articles in the media than Infinera. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for InterDigital and 5 mentions for Infinera. Infinera's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat InterDigital's score of 1.02 indicating that Infinera is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
InterDigital beats Infinera on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:INFN) was last updated on 1/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
