CALX vs. CIEN, SATS, IDCC, VSAT, EXTR, HLIT, INFN, DGII, BELFB, and RBBN
Should you be buying Calix stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Calix include Ciena (CIEN), EchoStar (SATS), InterDigital (IDCC), Viasat (VSAT), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Harmonic (HLIT), Infinera (INFN), Digi International (DGII), Bel Fuse (BELFB), and Ribbon Communications (RBBN). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment" industry.
Calix (NYSE:CALX) and Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Calix has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ciena has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ciena received 872 more outperform votes than Calix when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.61% of users gave Ciena an outperform vote while only 58.83% of users gave Calix an outperform vote.
98.1% of Calix shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Ciena shares are held by institutional investors. 16.7% of Calix shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Ciena shares are held by company 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.
Ciena has a net margin of 3.71% compared to Calix's net margin of 0.52%. Ciena's return on equity of 7.16% beat Calix's return on equity.
Ciena has higher revenue and earnings than Calix. Ciena is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Calix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Calix presently has a consensus target price of $42.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.87%. Ciena has a consensus target price of $57.25, suggesting a potential upside of 14.13%. Given Calix's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Calix is more favorable than Ciena.
In the previous week, Calix had 37 more articles in the media than Ciena. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Calix and 3 mentions for Ciena. Ciena's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Calix's score of 0.49 indicating that Ciena is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ciena beats Calix on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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