CFLT vs. FFIV, TOST, NICE, XM, CLDR, HUBS, MSTR, VEEV, TTWO, and ANSS
Should you be buying Confluent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Confluent include F5 (FFIV), Toast (TOST), NICE (NICE), Qualtrics International (XM), Cloudera (CLDR), HubSpot (HUBS), MicroStrategy (MSTR), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), and ANSYS (ANSS).
F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) and Confluent (NASDAQ:CFLT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
F5 has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Confluent has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
F5 has a net margin of 17.91% compared to F5's net margin of -46.73%. Confluent's return on equity of 21.41% beat F5's return on equity.
In the previous week, Confluent had 3 more articles in the media than F5. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Confluent and 15 mentions for F5. F5's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Confluent's score of 0.79 indicating that Confluent is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
F5 received 1206 more outperform votes than Confluent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 45.56% of users gave Confluent an outperform vote.
90.7% of F5 shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of Confluent shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of F5 shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Confluent shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
F5 currently has a consensus target price of $185.10, suggesting a potential upside of 11.12%. Confluent has a consensus target price of $33.04, suggesting a potential upside of 27.07%. Given F5's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Confluent is more favorable than F5.
F5 has higher revenue and earnings than Confluent. Confluent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than F5, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
F5 beats Confluent on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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