HPE vs. ANET, HPQ, JNPR, FFIV, EXTR, ATEN, DGII, LTRX, ALLT, and SILC
Should you be buying Hewlett Packard Enterprise stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hewlett Packard Enterprise include Arista Networks (ANET), HP (HPQ), Juniper Networks (JNPR), F5 (FFIV), Extreme Networks (EXTR), A10 Networks (ATEN), Digi International (DGII), Lantronix (LTRX), Allot Communications (ALLT), and Silicom (SILC). These companies are all part of the "computer & office equipment" industry.
Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) 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 community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
82.5% of Arista Networks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.8% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Arista Networks shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise 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.
Arista Networks presently has a consensus target price of $333.12, suggesting a potential upside of 3.57%. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a consensus target price of $21.08, suggesting a potential upside of 6.16%. Given Arista Networks' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hewlett Packard Enterprise is more favorable than Arista Networks.
Arista Networks has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Arista Networks has a net margin of 37.64% compared to Arista Networks' net margin of 6.38%. Hewlett Packard Enterprise's return on equity of 31.12% beat Arista Networks' return on equity.
Arista Networks received 513 more outperform votes than Hewlett Packard Enterprise when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.66% of users gave Arista Networks an outperform vote while only 64.01% of users gave Hewlett Packard Enterprise an outperform vote.
Arista Networks has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arista Networks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Arista Networks had 16 more articles in the media than Hewlett Packard Enterprise. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Arista Networks and 8 mentions for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Arista Networks' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Hewlett Packard Enterprise's score of 0.65 indicating that Hewlett Packard Enterprise is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Arista Networks beats Hewlett Packard Enterprise on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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