JNPR vs. FFIV, CIEN, SATS, IDCC, CALX, VSAT, EXTR, INFN, HLIT, and DGII
Should you be buying Juniper Networks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Juniper Networks include F5 (FFIV), Ciena (CIEN), EchoStar (SATS), InterDigital (IDCC), Calix (CALX), Viasat (VSAT), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Infinera (INFN), Harmonic (HLIT), and Digi International (DGII). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment" industry.
F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) and Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
F5 currently has a consensus target price of $185.10, indicating a potential upside of 9.55%. Juniper Networks has a consensus target price of $34.55, indicating a potential downside of 3.15%. Given Juniper Networks' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe F5 is more favorable than Juniper Networks.
In the previous week, F5 had 4 more articles in the media than Juniper Networks. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for F5 and 5 mentions for Juniper Networks. Juniper Networks' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat F5's score of 1.04 indicating that F5 is being referred to more favorably in the media.
F5 received 215 more outperform votes than Juniper Networks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 59.61% of users gave Juniper Networks an outperform vote.
F5 has a net margin of 17.91% compared to F5's net margin of 4.19%. Juniper Networks' return on equity of 21.41% beat F5's return on equity.
90.7% of F5 shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Juniper Networks shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of F5 shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Juniper Networks shares are owned by company 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 has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Juniper Networks. F5 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Juniper Networks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
F5 has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Juniper Networks has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
F5 beats Juniper Networks on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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