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Seagate Technology (STX) Competitors

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$106.97 -2.07 (-1.90%)
As of 05/20/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

STX vs. DELL, HPQ, HPE, SMCI, PSTG, LOGI, PAR, DBD, VYX, and ATEN

Should you be buying Seagate Technology stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seagate Technology include Dell Technologies (DELL), HP (HPQ), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Super Micro Computer (SMCI), Pure Storage (PSTG), Logitech International (LOGI), PAR Technology (PAR), Diebold Nixdorf (DBD), NCR Voyix (VYX), and A10 Networks (ATEN). These companies are all part of the "computer hardware" industry.

Seagate Technology vs.

Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) and Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Dell Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $134.76, indicating a potential upside of 18.08%. Seagate Technology has a consensus price target of $116.21, indicating a potential upside of 8.64%. Given Dell Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Dell Technologies is more favorable than Seagate Technology.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Dell Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.84
Seagate Technology
1 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.57

76.4% of Dell Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of Seagate Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 46.7% of Dell Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Seagate Technology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Dell Technologies has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seagate Technology has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Dell Technologies pays an annual dividend of $2.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Seagate Technology pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Dell Technologies pays out 33.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Seagate Technology pays out 41.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Dell Technologies has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Seagate Technology has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Seagate Technology has a net margin of 14.67% compared to Dell Technologies' net margin of 4.36%. Seagate Technology's return on equity of -63.48% beat Dell Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Dell Technologies4.36% -191.91% 5.88%
Seagate Technology 14.67%-63.48%11.88%

In the previous week, Dell Technologies had 34 more articles in the media than Seagate Technology. MarketBeat recorded 77 mentions for Dell Technologies and 43 mentions for Seagate Technology. Seagate Technology's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Dell Technologies' score of 0.79 indicating that Seagate Technology is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Dell Technologies
37 Very Positive mention(s)
9 Positive mention(s)
27 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Seagate Technology
31 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Dell Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Seagate Technology. Seagate Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dell Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Dell Technologies$95.57B0.83$3.21B$6.2218.35
Seagate Technology$8.54B2.66$335M$6.9215.46

Seagate Technology received 457 more outperform votes than Dell Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.59% of users gave Dell Technologies an outperform vote while only 58.66% of users gave Seagate Technology an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Dell TechnologiesOutperform Votes
755
60.59%
Underperform Votes
491
39.41%
Seagate TechnologyOutperform Votes
1212
58.66%
Underperform Votes
854
41.34%

Summary

Dell Technologies beats Seagate Technology on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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STX vs. The Competition

MetricSeagate TechnologyComputer storage devices IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$22.70B$15.89B$25.22B$8.48B
Dividend Yield2.74%1.91%2.89%4.11%
P/E Ratio19.5639.8045.0920.05
Price / Sales2.662.622,233.78119.28
Price / Cash52.7558.4434.7834.62
Price / Book-20.9711.046.794.61
Net Income$335M$108.60M$737.99M$248.19M
7 Day Performance1.42%5.82%0.61%2.88%
1 Month Performance41.13%32.41%14.67%15.40%
1 Year Performance10.49%-3.97%52,433.43%7.68%

Seagate Technology Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
STX
Seagate Technology
4.3644 of 5 stars
$106.97
-1.9%
$116.21
+8.6%
+10.5%$22.70B$8.54B19.5640,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
DELL
Dell Technologies
4.9524 of 5 stars
$103.30
+7.7%
$134.65
+30.3%
-21.5%$72.02B$95.57B18.23133,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
HPQ
HP
4.7474 of 5 stars
$28.17
+6.5%
$33.83
+20.1%
-8.9%$26.53B$53.88B10.0258,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
HPE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
4.907 of 5 stars
$17.74
+5.0%
$20.60
+16.1%
-0.6%$23.31B$31.23B9.3460,200Trending News
Analyst Forecast
SMCI
Super Micro Computer
4.243 of 5 stars
$33.59
+5.0%
$45.53
+35.6%
-52.7%$20.04B$21.57B16.864,610Trending News
Analyst Forecast
PSTG
Pure Storage
4.3782 of 5 stars
$53.37
+9.6%
$70.20
+31.5%
-6.0%$17.41B$3.17B140.504,200Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
LOGI
Logitech International
3.5552 of 5 stars
$86.08
+6.8%
$85.71
-0.4%
-3.7%$13.61B$4.55B20.208,200Positive News
PAR
PAR Technology
1.5166 of 5 stars
$66.41
+2.6%
$81.86
+23.3%
+50.5%$2.70B$349.98M-266.541,480
DBD
Diebold Nixdorf
4.3891 of 5 stars
$47.97
+3.7%
$70.00
+45.9%
+10.5%$1.80B$3.70B-108.5622,000Gap Up
VYX
NCR Voyix
3.6012 of 5 stars
$11.12
+5.2%
$14.83
+33.5%
-22.0%$1.55B$2.73B2.5835,000Positive News
ATEN
A10 Networks
3.8011 of 5 stars
$17.86
+4.1%
$22.00
+23.2%
+6.1%$1.29B$267.16M26.62580Positive News

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