FTNT vs. ZS, CRWD, LOGI, JNPR, FFIV, PANW, CARR, SNOW, TEAM, and DASH
Should you be buying Fortinet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fortinet include Zscaler (ZS), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Logitech International (LOGI), Juniper Networks (JNPR), F5 (FFIV), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Carrier Global (CARR), Snowflake (SNOW), Atlassian (TEAM), and DoorDash (DASH). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) and Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Zscaler has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fortinet has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zscaler presently has a consensus target price of $230.24, indicating a potential upside of 30.04%. Fortinet has a consensus target price of $72.19, indicating a potential upside of 12.49%. Given Fortinet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Zscaler is more favorable than Fortinet.
Fortinet has a net margin of 21.64% compared to Fortinet's net margin of -7.32%. Fortinet's return on equity of -14.60% beat Zscaler's return on equity.
Fortinet received 812 more outperform votes than Zscaler when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.36% of users gave Fortinet an outperform vote while only 59.34% of users gave Zscaler an outperform vote.
Fortinet has higher revenue and earnings than Zscaler. Zscaler is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fortinet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
46.5% of Zscaler shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Fortinet shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.2% of Zscaler shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.5% of Fortinet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Fortinet had 7 more articles in the media than Zscaler. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Fortinet and 12 mentions for Zscaler. Fortinet's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Zscaler's score of 0.67 indicating that Zscaler is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Fortinet beats Zscaler on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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