IDCC vs. FFIV, JNPR, CIEN, SATS, CALX, EXTR, INFN, HLIT, DGII, and VSAT
Should you be buying InterDigital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of InterDigital include F5 (FFIV), Juniper Networks (JNPR), Ciena (CIEN), EchoStar (SATS), Calix (CALX), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Infinera (INFN), Harmonic (HLIT), Digi International (DGII), and Viasat (VSAT). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment" industry.
InterDigital vs.
InterDigital (NASDAQ:IDCC) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and community ranking.
InterDigital currently has a consensus price target of $120.00, suggesting a potential downside of 30.11%. F5 has a consensus price target of $251.25, suggesting a potential downside of 4.81%. Given F5's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe F5 is more favorable than InterDigital.
In the previous week, F5 had 9 more articles in the media than InterDigital. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for F5 and 3 mentions for InterDigital. InterDigital's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat F5's score of 0.69 indicating that InterDigital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
F5 has higher revenue and earnings than InterDigital. InterDigital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than F5, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
InterDigital has a net margin of 36.69% compared to F5's net margin of 20.13%. InterDigital's return on equity of 40.49% beat F5's return on equity.
99.8% of InterDigital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of InterDigital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of F5 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
InterDigital has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
F5 received 829 more outperform votes than InterDigital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.82% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 62.37% of users gave InterDigital an outperform vote.
Summary
F5 beats InterDigital on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:IDCC) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
