FTNT vs. ZS, CRWD, JNPR, PFPT, FFIV, NOW, AXON, QLYS, CVLT, and AI
Should you be buying Fortinet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortinet include Zscaler (ZS), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Juniper Networks (JNPR), Proofpoint (PFPT), F5 (FFIV), ServiceNow (NOW), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Qualys (QLYS), Commvault Systems (CVLT), and C3.ai (AI).
Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) and Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
46.5% of Zscaler shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Fortinet shares are held by institutional investors. 19.2% of Zscaler shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.0% of Fortinet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Zscaler has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fortinet has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zscaler presently has a consensus target price of $223.85, indicating a potential upside of 31.71%. Fortinet has a consensus target price of $70.10, indicating a potential upside of 18.17%. Given Fortinet's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Zscaler is more favorable than Fortinet.
In the previous week, Zscaler had 44 more articles in the media than Fortinet. MarketBeat recorded 64 mentions for Zscaler and 20 mentions for Fortinet. Zscaler's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Fortinet's score of 0.34 indicating that Fortinet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fortinet has higher revenue and earnings than Zscaler. Zscaler is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fortinet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fortinet has a net margin of 22.23% compared to Fortinet's net margin of -3.62%. Fortinet's return on equity of -6.31% beat Zscaler's return on equity.
Fortinet received 803 more outperform votes than Zscaler when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.07% of users gave Fortinet an outperform vote while only 59.77% of users gave Zscaler an outperform vote.
Summary
Fortinet beats Zscaler on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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