CALX vs. CIEN, SATS, IDCC, VSAT, EXTR, HLIT, INFN, DGII, BELFB, and RBBN
Should you be buying Calix stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Calix include Ciena (CIEN), EchoStar (SATS), InterDigital (IDCC), Viasat (VSAT), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Harmonic (HLIT), Infinera (INFN), Digi International (DGII), Bel Fuse (BELFB), and Ribbon Communications (RBBN). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment" industry.
Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) and Calix (NYSE:CALX) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Ciena has higher revenue and earnings than Calix. Ciena is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Calix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
92.0% of Ciena shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.1% of Calix shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ciena shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Calix shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ciena received 870 more outperform votes than Calix when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.62% of users gave Ciena an outperform vote while only 58.75% of users gave Calix an outperform vote.
Ciena has a net margin of 5.22% compared to Ciena's net margin of 2.19%. Calix's return on equity of 9.92% beat Ciena's return on equity.
Ciena currently has a consensus price target of $58.79, suggesting a potential upside of 19.12%. Calix has a consensus price target of $40.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.29%. Given Ciena's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Calix is more favorable than Ciena.
In the previous week, Calix had 2 more articles in the media than Ciena. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Calix and 7 mentions for Ciena. Ciena's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Calix's score of 0.67 indicating that Calix is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ciena has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Calix has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ciena beats Calix on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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