CFLT vs. FFIV, TOST, NICE, XM, CLDR, HUBS, MSTR, VEEV, TTWO, and ANSS
Should you be buying Confluent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Confluent include F5 (FFIV), Toast (TOST), NICE (NICE), Qualtrics International (XM), Cloudera (CLDR), HubSpot (HUBS), MicroStrategy (MSTR), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), and ANSYS (ANSS).
Confluent (NASDAQ:CFLT) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Confluent has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
F5 received 1206 more outperform votes than Confluent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 45.56% of users gave Confluent an outperform vote.
Confluent presently has a consensus target price of $33.04, suggesting a potential upside of 26.72%. F5 has a consensus target price of $185.10, suggesting a potential upside of 10.63%. Given Confluent's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Confluent is more favorable than F5.
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.
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.
78.1% of Confluent shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of F5 shares are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of Confluent shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of F5 shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Confluent had 7 more articles in the media than F5. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Confluent and 13 mentions for F5. Confluent's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat F5's score of 0.79 indicating that Confluent is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
F5 beats Confluent on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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