CIEN vs. JNPR, FFIV, SATS, IDCC, CALX, VSAT, EXTR, INFN, HLIT, and DGII
Should you be buying Ciena stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ciena include Juniper Networks (JNPR), F5 (FFIV), EchoStar (SATS), InterDigital (IDCC), Calix (CALX), Viasat (VSAT), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Infinera (INFN), Harmonic (HLIT), and Digi International (DGII). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment" industry.
Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) and Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
Ciena presently has a consensus target price of $57.25, indicating a potential upside of 14.13%. Juniper Networks has a consensus target price of $35.27, indicating a potential downside of 5.31%. Given Ciena's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ciena is more favorable than Juniper Networks.
Ciena received 151 more outperform votes than Juniper Networks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.61% of users gave Ciena an outperform vote while only 59.34% of users gave Juniper Networks an outperform vote.
Juniper Networks has a net margin of 4.19% compared to Ciena's net margin of 3.71%. Juniper Networks' return on equity of 10.02% beat Ciena's return on equity.
92.0% of Ciena shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Juniper Networks shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ciena shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Juniper Networks shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Juniper Networks had 25 more articles in the media than Ciena. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Juniper Networks and 4 mentions for Ciena. Ciena's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Juniper Networks' score of 0.40 indicating that Ciena is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ciena has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Juniper Networks has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Juniper Networks has higher revenue and earnings than Ciena. Ciena is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Juniper Networks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Juniper Networks beats Ciena on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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