JNPR vs. FFIV, HPE, HPQ, ONTO, ALAB, TWLO, BRKR, SNX, EPAM, and WWD
Should you be buying Juniper Networks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Juniper Networks include F5 (FFIV), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), HP (HPQ), Onto Innovation (ONTO), Astera Labs (ALAB), Twilio (TWLO), Bruker (BRKR), TD SYNNEX (SNX), EPAM Systems (EPAM), and Woodward (WWD). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) and Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
F5 has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Juniper Networks. F5 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Juniper Networks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
F5 received 215 more outperform votes than Juniper Networks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave F5 an outperform vote while only 59.64% of users gave Juniper Networks an outperform vote.
F5 has a net margin of 17.91% compared to F5's net margin of 4.19%. Juniper Networks' return on equity of 21.41% beat F5's return on equity.
90.7% of F5 shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Juniper Networks shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of F5 shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Juniper Networks shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
F5 presently has a consensus price target of $185.10, suggesting a potential upside of 6.30%. Juniper Networks has a consensus price target of $34.55, suggesting a potential downside of 0.27%. Given Juniper Networks' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe F5 is more favorable than Juniper Networks.
In the previous week, F5 had 2 more articles in the media than Juniper Networks. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for F5 and 12 mentions for Juniper Networks. F5's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Juniper Networks' score of 0.72 indicating that Juniper Networks is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
F5 has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Juniper Networks has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
F5 beats Juniper Networks on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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