CSCO vs. QCOM, PANW, ANET, MSI, JNPR, FFIV, CIEN, SATS, IDCC, and CALX
Should you be buying Cisco Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cisco Systems include QUALCOMM (QCOM), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Arista Networks (ANET), Motorola Solutions (MSI), Juniper Networks (JNPR), F5 (FFIV), Ciena (CIEN), EchoStar (SATS), InterDigital (IDCC), and Calix (CALX). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM) and Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Cisco Systems has higher revenue and earnings than QUALCOMM. Cisco Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than QUALCOMM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
QUALCOMM presently has a consensus target price of $185.91, suggesting a potential downside of 8.89%. Cisco Systems has a consensus target price of $56.47, suggesting a potential upside of 21.45%. Given QUALCOMM's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cisco Systems is more favorable than QUALCOMM.
QUALCOMM has a net margin of 23.03% compared to QUALCOMM's net margin of 21.88%. Cisco Systems' return on equity of 37.09% beat QUALCOMM's return on equity.
74.4% of QUALCOMM shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.3% of Cisco Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of QUALCOMM shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Cisco Systems shares are owned by company 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, QUALCOMM had 6 more articles in the media than Cisco Systems. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for QUALCOMM and 26 mentions for Cisco Systems. Cisco Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat QUALCOMM's score of 0.57 indicating that QUALCOMM is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cisco Systems received 172 more outperform votes than QUALCOMM when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.77% of users gave QUALCOMM an outperform vote while only 73.28% of users gave Cisco Systems an outperform vote.
QUALCOMM has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cisco Systems has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
QUALCOMM pays an annual dividend of $3.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Cisco Systems pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. QUALCOMM pays out 45.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cisco Systems pays out 53.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. QUALCOMM has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years and Cisco Systems has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
Summary
QUALCOMM beats Cisco Systems on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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