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EchoStar (SATS) Competitors

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$24.01 +0.01 (+0.04%)
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SATS vs. FFIV, JNPR, CIEN, IDCC, EXTR, CALX, INFN, HLIT, VSAT, and DGII

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), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Calix (CALX), Infinera (INFN), Harmonic (HLIT), Viasat (VSAT), and Digi International (DGII). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment" industry.

EchoStar vs.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) and EchoStar (NASDAQ:SATS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.

In the previous week, F5 had 7 more articles in the media than EchoStar. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for F5 and 6 mentions for EchoStar. EchoStar's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat F5's score of 1.40 indicating that EchoStar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
F5
11 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
EchoStar
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

90.7% of F5 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.6% of EchoStar shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of F5 shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 55.9% of EchoStar shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

F5 has a net margin of 20.13% compared to EchoStar's net margin of -15.51%. F5's return on equity of 20.80% beat EchoStar's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
F520.13% 20.80% 11.41%
EchoStar -15.51%-0.64%-0.22%

F5 has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
F5$2.82B5.35$566.78M$9.5626.90
EchoStar$17.02B0.39-$1.70B-$9.16-2.64

F5 presently has a consensus target price of $233.56, indicating a potential downside of 9.16%. EchoStar has a consensus target price of $19.25, indicating a potential downside of 20.45%. Given F5's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe F5 is more favorable than EchoStar.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
F5
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.22
EchoStar
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

F5 received 936 more outperform votes than EchoStar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.93% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 62.96% of users gave EchoStar an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
F5Outperform Votes
1293
66.93%
Underperform Votes
639
33.07%
EchoStarOutperform Votes
357
62.96%
Underperform Votes
210
37.04%

F5 has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EchoStar has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

F5 beats EchoStar on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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SATS vs. The Competition

MetricEchoStarCommunication services IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$6.58B$1.71B$24.83B$9.15B
Dividend YieldN/A4.03%2.68%4.01%
P/E Ratio-2.647.56233.2214.53
Price / Sales0.3926.833,758.4788.30
Price / Cash3.4017.2734.6038.08
Price / Book0.334.987.844.93
Net Income-$1.70B-$215.51M$658.35M$224.74M
7 Day Performance-3.32%-1.62%1.48%1.77%
1 Month Performance-1.67%3.33%7.78%9.04%
1 Year Performance119.40%28.58%22.87%28.41%

EchoStar Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SATS
EchoStar
1.034 of 5 stars
$24.01
+0.0%
$19.25
-19.8%
+112.8%$6.53B$17.02B-2.6215,300Positive News
FFIV
F5
4.6268 of 5 stars
$250.35
+0.1%
$233.56
-6.7%
+46.8%$14.68B$2.82B26.196,557Positive News
JNPR
Juniper Networks
4.3807 of 5 stars
$35.75
+0.1%
$39.50
+10.5%
+25.5%$11.84B$5.56B47.283,374Ex-Dividend
Positive News
CIEN
Ciena
4.657 of 5 stars
$69.97
+0.4%
$63.08
-9.9%
+55.8%$10.11B$4.02B74.178,483Analyst Forecast
Positive News
IDCC
InterDigital
2.7737 of 5 stars
$195.40
-0.3%
$120.00
-38.6%
+95.9%$4.95B$549.59M20.94420Positive News
EXTR
Extreme Networks
3.7691 of 5 stars
$17.24
+3.9%
$19.00
+10.2%
+10.5%$2.28B$1.12B-17.112,656
CALX
Calix
2.5099 of 5 stars
$32.70
+0.5%
$42.50
+30.0%
-13.2%$2.17B$890.13M-135.541,760News Coverage
INFN
Infinera
0.7627 of 5 stars
$6.63
+0.3%
$7.09
+6.9%
+58.1%$1.57B$1.61B-13.773,389Positive News
HLIT
Harmonic
4.1471 of 5 stars
$12.97
+1.2%
$15.25
+17.6%
+20.2%$1.51B$607.91M17.561,359Positive News
VSAT
Viasat
3.9922 of 5 stars
$9.99
+7.1%
$18.33
+83.5%
-61.1%$1.28B$4.28B-3.207,500Positive News
DGII
Digi International
1.7455 of 5 stars
$33.17
-0.2%
$36.75
+10.8%
+37.6%$1.21B$424.05M54.46822

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This page (NASDAQ:SATS) was last updated on 12/5/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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