ANET vs. HPQ, HPE, IBM, CSCO, SNPS, RELX, CDNS, DELL, CRWD, and KLAC
Should you be buying Arista Networks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arista Networks include HP (HPQ), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), International Business Machines (IBM), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Synopsys (SNPS), Relx (RELX), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Dell Technologies (DELL), CrowdStrike (CRWD), and KLA (KLAC). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
HP currently has a consensus price target of $33.11, suggesting a potential upside of 17.83%. Arista Networks has a consensus price target of $275.59, suggesting a potential upside of 8.18%. Given Arista Networks' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe HP is more favorable than Arista Networks.
HP has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arista Networks has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
HP received 208 more outperform votes than Arista Networks when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.58% of users gave Arista Networks an outperform vote while only 60.94% of users gave HP an outperform vote.
77.5% of HP shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.5% of Arista Networks shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of HP shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.0% of Arista Networks shares are held 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, HP had 5 more articles in the media than Arista Networks. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for HP and 14 mentions for Arista Networks. HP's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Arista Networks' score of 0.76 indicating that Arista Networks is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Arista Networks has a net margin of 35.62% compared to Arista Networks' net margin of 6.45%. HP's return on equity of 31.44% beat Arista Networks' return on equity.
HP has higher revenue and earnings than Arista Networks. HP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arista Networks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Arista Networks beats HP on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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