CIEN vs. FFIV, JNPR, IDCC, SATS, CALX, EXTR, INFN, DGII, VSAT, and HLIT
Should you be buying Ciena stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ciena include F5 (FFIV), Juniper Networks (JNPR), InterDigital (IDCC), EchoStar (SATS), 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.
Ciena vs.
Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
In the previous week, Ciena had 54 more articles in the media than F5. MarketBeat recorded 63 mentions for Ciena and 9 mentions for F5. F5's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Ciena's score of 0.33 indicating that F5 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.0% of Ciena shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Ciena shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of F5 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
F5 received 49 more outperform votes than Ciena when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.96% of users gave Ciena an outperform vote while only 66.46% of users gave F5 an outperform vote.
F5 has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ciena. F5 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ciena, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
F5 has a net margin of 20.58% compared to Ciena's net margin of 2.09%. F5's return on equity of 20.98% beat Ciena's return on equity.
Ciena has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more 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.
Ciena presently has a consensus price target of $83.15, indicating a potential upside of 14.79%. F5 has a consensus price target of $282.56, indicating a potential downside of 3.78%. Given Ciena's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ciena is more favorable than F5.
Summary
Ciena beats F5 on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CIEN) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
