CFLT vs. FFIV, XM, TOST, NICE, DT, EA, VEEV, HUBS, MSTR, and ANSS
Should you be buying Confluent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Confluent include F5 (FFIV), Qualtrics International (XM), Toast (TOST), NICE (NICE), Dynatrace (DT), Electronic Arts (EA), Veeva Systems (VEEV), HubSpot (HUBS), MicroStrategy (MSTR), and ANSYS (ANSS).
Confluent (NASDAQ:CFLT) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
Confluent currently has a consensus price target of $33.04, indicating a potential upside of 28.70%. F5 has a consensus price target of $185.10, indicating a potential upside of 12.10%. Given Confluent's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Confluent is more favorable than F5.
In the previous week, F5 had 1 more articles in the media than Confluent. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for F5 and 8 mentions for Confluent. F5's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Confluent's score of 0.80 indicating that F5 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
78.1% of Confluent shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Confluent shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of F5 shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
F5 has a net margin of 17.91% compared to Confluent's net margin of -46.73%. F5's return on equity of 21.41% beat Confluent's return on equity.
F5 received 1207 more outperform votes than Confluent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 45.25% of users gave Confluent an outperform vote.
Confluent has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
F5 has higher revenue and earnings than Confluent. Confluent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than F5, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
F5 beats Confluent on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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