CLFD vs. AVYA, INFN, ADTN, NTGR, AUDC, DZSI, FKWL, SONM, AKTS, and CLRO
Should you be buying Clearfield stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clearfield include Avaya (AVYA), Infinera (INFN), ADTRAN (ADTN), NETGEAR (NTGR), AudioCodes (AUDC), DZS (DZSI), Franklin Wireless (FKWL), Sonim Technologies (SONM), Akoustis Technologies (AKTS), and ClearOne (CLRO).
Clearfield (NASDAQ:CLFD) and Avaya (NYSE:AVYA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Clearfield has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Avaya. Clearfield is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Avaya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Clearfield currently has a consensus target price of $42.40, suggesting a potential upside of 10.82%.
Clearfield has a net margin of -1.79% compared to Avaya's net margin of -53.11%. Avaya's return on equity of 32.42% beat Clearfield's return on equity.
In the previous week, Clearfield had 4 more articles in the media than Avaya. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Clearfield and 2 mentions for Avaya. Clearfield's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Avaya's score of -0.16 indicating that Clearfield is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Clearfield received 77 more outperform votes than Avaya when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.67% of users gave Avaya an outperform vote while only 60.49% of users gave Clearfield an outperform vote.
88.7% of Clearfield shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.8% of Avaya shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Clearfield shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Avaya shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Clearfield has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avaya has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Clearfield beats Avaya on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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