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MSI vs. CLFD, IDCC, VSAT, WDAY, ANET, UI, CSCO, QCOM, PANW, and FFIV

Should you be buying Motorola Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Motorola Solutions include Clearfield (CLFD), InterDigital (IDCC), Viasat (VSAT), Workday (WDAY), Arista Networks (ANET), Ubiquiti (UI), Cisco Systems (CSCO), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), and F5 (FFIV). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.

Motorola Solutions vs. Its Competitors

Clearfield (NASDAQ:CLFD) and Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, risk and media sentiment.

Clearfield currently has a consensus price target of $46.75, suggesting a potential upside of 7.77%. Motorola Solutions has a consensus price target of $513.25, suggesting a potential upside of 23.05%. Given Motorola Solutions' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Motorola Solutions is more favorable than Clearfield.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Clearfield
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Motorola Solutions
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80

Clearfield has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Motorola Solutions has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Motorola Solutions has a net margin of 18.67% compared to Clearfield's net margin of -1.04%. Motorola Solutions' return on equity of 160.93% beat Clearfield's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Clearfield-1.04% -0.68% -0.59%
Motorola Solutions 18.67%160.93%15.84%

Motorola Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Clearfield. Clearfield is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Motorola Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Clearfield$166.71M3.60-$12.45M-$0.14-309.86
Motorola Solutions$10.96B6.35$1.58B$11.9834.82

88.7% of Clearfield shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.2% of Motorola Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.8% of Clearfield shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Motorola Solutions shares are owned by 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, Motorola Solutions had 22 more articles in the media than Clearfield. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Motorola Solutions and 9 mentions for Clearfield. Motorola Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Clearfield's score of 0.11 indicating that Motorola Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Clearfield
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Motorola Solutions
21 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Motorola Solutions beats Clearfield on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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MSI vs. The Competition

MetricMotorola SolutionsWireless Equipment IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$69.62B$13.38B$27.32B$20.45B
Dividend Yield1.03%1.57%3.12%3.72%
P/E Ratio34.8237.8937.0927.80
Price / Sales6.35253.281,952.1949.81
Price / Cash28.2618.8134.7718.22
Price / Book40.5426.427.184.58
Net Income$1.58B$203.49M$763.56M$982.91M
7 Day Performance-1.90%1.20%2.13%1.31%
1 Month Performance-0.16%8.53%5.72%4.85%
1 Year Performance6.80%29.69%52,367.21%14.09%

Motorola Solutions Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MSI
Motorola Solutions
4.819 of 5 stars
$417.12
-2.2%
$513.25
+23.0%
+10.2%$69.62B$10.96B34.8221,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
CLFD
Clearfield
1.2888 of 5 stars
$43.41
+2.2%
$46.75
+7.7%
+18.8%$600.36M$166.71M-310.071,130Analyst Upgrade
IDCC
InterDigital
1.6096 of 5 stars
$224.34
-2.9%
$160.00
-28.7%
+87.8%$5.82B$868.52M17.79420Insider Trade
VSAT
Viasat
3.4794 of 5 stars
$14.59
-0.1%
$19.00
+30.2%
+10.7%$1.90B$4.52B-3.287,000Positive News
WDAY
Workday
4.8359 of 5 stars
$239.28
+0.8%
$297.68
+24.4%
+5.3%$63.89B$8.70B132.2017,700Analyst Downgrade
ANET
Arista Networks
4.5752 of 5 stars
$102.46
+3.1%
$109.33
+6.7%
+10.9%$128.68B$7.44B43.374,412Analyst Forecast
UI
Ubiquiti
1.2228 of 5 stars
$409.96
+1.8%
$343.50
-16.2%
+184.2%$24.80B$1.93B45.151,380Positive News
CSCO
Cisco Systems
4.7461 of 5 stars
$69.17
+0.8%
$69.53
+0.5%
+47.8%$273.91B$53.80B28.2390,400Trending News
Analyst Forecast
QCOM
QUALCOMM
4.9248 of 5 stars
$158.93
+0.2%
$186.96
+17.6%
-23.2%$174.51B$38.96B16.1849,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
PANW
Palo Alto Networks
4.4657 of 5 stars
$204.25
+1.8%
$208.00
+1.8%
+17.8%$136.19B$8.03B116.7115,289Positive News
FFIV
F5
3.9977 of 5 stars
$294.36
-0.5%
$282.56
-4.0%
+74.4%$16.91B$2.82B27.936,557Positive News
Analyst Forecast

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