SATS vs. FFIV, JNPR, CIEN, IDCC, CALX, EXTR, INFN, DGII, VSAT, and HLIT
Should you be buying EchoStar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EchoStar include F5 (FFIV), Juniper Networks (JNPR), Ciena (CIEN), InterDigital (IDCC), Calix (CALX), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Infinera (INFN), Digi International (DGII), Viasat (VSAT), and Harmonic (HLIT). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment" industry.
EchoStar vs. Its Competitors
EchoStar (NASDAQ:SATS) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
EchoStar has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, EchoStar had 27 more articles in the media than F5. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for EchoStar and 14 mentions for F5. F5's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat EchoStar's score of 0.24 indicating that F5 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
F5 received 943 more outperform votes than EchoStar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.46% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 62.74% of users gave EchoStar an outperform vote.
EchoStar presently has a consensus target price of $23.75, indicating a potential upside of 37.52%. F5 has a consensus target price of $282.56, indicating a potential downside of 3.53%. Given EchoStar's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe EchoStar is more favorable than F5.
F5 has lower revenue, but higher earnings than EchoStar. EchoStar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than F5, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
F5 has a net margin of 20.58% compared to EchoStar's net margin of -15.51%. F5's return on equity of 20.98% beat EchoStar's return on equity.
33.6% of EchoStar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are held by institutional investors. 55.7% of EchoStar shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of F5 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
F5 beats EchoStar on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:SATS) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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