ADTN vs. CLFD, AUDC, DZSI, AVYA, EXTR, HLIT, INFN, DGII, BELFB, and RBBN
Should you be buying ADTRAN stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ADTRAN include Clearfield (CLFD), AudioCodes (AUDC), DZS (DZSI), Avaya (AVYA), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Harmonic (HLIT), Infinera (INFN), Digi International (DGII), Bel Fuse (BELFB), and Ribbon Communications (RBBN).
Clearfield (NASDAQ:CLFD) and ADTRAN (NASDAQ:ADTN) are both small-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, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Clearfield has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ADTRAN has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ADTRAN had 3 more articles in the media than Clearfield. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for ADTRAN and 6 mentions for Clearfield. ADTRAN's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Clearfield's score of 0.57 indicating that Clearfield is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clearfield has a net margin of -1.79% compared to Clearfield's net margin of -51.42%. ADTRAN's return on equity of -1.08% beat Clearfield's return on equity.
Clearfield has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ADTRAN. Clearfield is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ADTRAN, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clearfield presently has a consensus price target of $42.40, indicating a potential upside of 10.82%. ADTRAN has a consensus price target of $7.67, indicating a potential upside of 38.14%. Given Clearfield's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ADTRAN is more favorable than Clearfield.
88.7% of Clearfield shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of ADTRAN shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Clearfield shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of ADTRAN shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ADTRAN received 145 more outperform votes than Clearfield when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.49% of users gave Clearfield an outperform vote while only 57.78% of users gave ADTRAN an outperform vote.
Summary
Clearfield beats ADTRAN on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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