NTAP vs. HPE, WDC, NTNX, SYNA, IMMR, IVAC, PSTG, STX, QMCO, and ANET
Should you be buying NetApp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NetApp include Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Western Digital (WDC), Nutanix (NTNX), Synaptics (SYNA), Immersion (IMMR), Intevac (IVAC), Pure Storage (PSTG), Seagate Technology (STX), Quantum (QMCO), and Arista Networks (ANET).
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) and NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. NetApp pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Hewlett Packard Enterprise pays out 35.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NetApp pays out 43.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has higher revenue and earnings than NetApp. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NetApp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise presently has a consensus price target of $18.20, suggesting a potential upside of 3.12%. NetApp has a consensus price target of $112.75, suggesting a potential downside of 6.38%. Given NetApp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Hewlett Packard Enterprise is more favorable than NetApp.
NetApp has a net margin of 15.73% compared to NetApp's net margin of 6.81%. Hewlett Packard Enterprise's return on equity of 123.24% beat NetApp's return on equity.
NetApp received 344 more outperform votes than Hewlett Packard Enterprise when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.44% of users gave Hewlett Packard Enterprise an outperform vote while only 53.85% of users gave NetApp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NetApp had 28 more articles in the media than Hewlett Packard Enterprise. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for NetApp and 18 mentions for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Hewlett Packard Enterprise's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat NetApp's score of 0.69 indicating that NetApp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NetApp has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
80.8% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.2% of NetApp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of NetApp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
NetApp beats Hewlett Packard Enterprise on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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