EMC vs. NTAP, WDC, SYNA, IMMR, and IVAC
Should you be buying EMC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EMC include NetApp (NTAP), Western Digital (WDC), Synaptics (SYNA), Immersion (IMMR), and Intevac (IVAC). These companies are all part of the "computer storage & peripherals" industry.
EMC (NYSE:EMC) and NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) are both companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
EMC pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. NetApp pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. EMC pays out 22.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NetApp pays out 44.8% 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. EMC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
NetApp has higher revenue and earnings than EMC. EMC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NetApp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.9% of EMC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of NetApp shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of EMC shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of NetApp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NetApp has a net margin of 15.73% compared to EMC's net margin of 0.00%. NetApp's return on equity of 114.54% beat EMC's return on equity.
In the previous week, NetApp had 1 more articles in the media than EMC. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for NetApp and 7 mentions for EMC. NetApp's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat EMC's score of 0.00 indicating that NetApp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NetApp has a consensus price target of $117.81, suggesting a potential downside of 6.61%. Given NetApp's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NetApp is more favorable than EMC.
NetApp received 119 more outperform votes than EMC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.45% of users gave EMC an outperform vote while only 53.86% of users gave NetApp an outperform vote.
Summary
NetApp beats EMC on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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