HRS vs. PANW, MSI, JNPR, FFIV, CIEN, SATS, IDCC, CALX, VSAT, and EXTR
Should you be buying Harris stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Harris include Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Motorola Solutions (MSI), Juniper Networks (JNPR), F5 (FFIV), Ciena (CIEN), EchoStar (SATS), InterDigital (IDCC), Calix (CALX), Viasat (VSAT), and Extreme Networks (EXTR). These companies are all part of the "communications equipment" industry.
Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) and Harris (NYSE:HRS) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.
Palo Alto Networks has a net margin of 31.42% compared to Palo Alto Networks' net margin of 13.60%. Harris' return on equity of 32.74% beat Palo Alto Networks' return on equity.
In the previous week, Palo Alto Networks had 23 more articles in the media than Harris. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Palo Alto Networks and 9 mentions for Harris. Harris' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Palo Alto Networks' score of 0.00 indicating that Palo Alto Networks is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Palo Alto Networks received 1626 more outperform votes than Harris when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.67% of users gave Palo Alto Networks an outperform vote while only 70.89% of users gave Harris an outperform vote.
Palo Alto Networks has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harris has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Palo Alto Networks presently has a consensus price target of $322.78, suggesting a potential upside of 9.45%. Given Harris' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Palo Alto Networks is more favorable than Harris.
79.8% of Palo Alto Networks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.7% of Harris shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Palo Alto Networks shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Harris shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Harris has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Palo Alto Networks. Harris is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palo Alto Networks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Palo Alto Networks beats Harris on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Harris News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for HRS and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HRS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Related Companies and Tools
