FFIV vs. JNPR, EXTR, ATEN, DGII, LTRX, SILC, HPE, HPQ, ZG, and LSCC
Should you be buying F5 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of F5 include Juniper Networks (JNPR), Extreme Networks (EXTR), A10 Networks (ATEN), Digi International (DGII), Lantronix (LTRX), Silicom (SILC), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), HP (HPQ), Zillow Group (ZG), and Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
92.0% of Juniper Networks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Juniper Networks shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of F5 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Juniper Networks has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, F5 had 1 more articles in the media than Juniper Networks. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for F5 and 6 mentions for Juniper Networks. F5's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Juniper Networks' score of 0.43 indicating that Juniper Networks is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Juniper Networks presently has a consensus target price of $34.55, indicating a potential downside of 0.27%. F5 has a consensus target price of $185.10, indicating a potential upside of 7.85%. Given Juniper Networks' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe F5 is more favorable than Juniper Networks.
F5 has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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 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.
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 59.68% of users gave Juniper Networks an outperform vote.
Summary
F5 beats Juniper Networks on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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