GLW vs. JBL, KEYS, GIB, HUBS, FTV, MTD, WIT, NET, GRMN, and VOD
Should you be buying Corning stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Corning include Jabil (JBL), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), CGI (GIB), HubSpot (HUBS), Fortive (FTV), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), Wipro (WIT), Cloudflare (NET), Garmin (GRMN), and Vodafone Group Public (VOD). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Corning (NYSE:GLW) and Jabil (NYSE:JBL) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Corning has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Jabil. Jabil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Corning, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Corning pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Jabil pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Corning pays out 164.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Jabil pays out 5.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Corning presently has a consensus target price of $34.89, indicating a potential upside of 26.32%. Jabil has a consensus target price of $120.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.10%. Given Corning's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Corning is more favorable than Jabil.
Corning has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jabil has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Corning had 7 more articles in the media than Jabil. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Corning and 3 mentions for Jabil. Corning's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Jabil's score of -0.11 indicating that Corning is being referred to more favorably in the media.
67.7% of Corning shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of Jabil shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Corning shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Jabil shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Corning received 257 more outperform votes than Jabil when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.39% of users gave Jabil an outperform vote while only 64.76% of users gave Corning an outperform vote.
Corning has a net margin of 4.50% compared to Jabil's net margin of 2.36%. Jabil's return on equity of 38.02% beat Corning's return on equity.
Summary
Jabil beats Corning on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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