TER vs. AKAM, SSNC, BSY, NTNX, OKTA, SWKS, JBL, TRMB, EPAM, and MANH
Should you be buying Teradyne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Teradyne include Akamai Technologies (AKAM), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Bentley Systems (BSY), Nutanix (NTNX), Okta (OKTA), Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), Jabil (JBL), Trimble (TRMB), EPAM Systems (EPAM), and Manhattan Associates (MANH). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) and Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation and risk.
Akamai Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $121.60, suggesting a potential upside of 19.47%. Teradyne has a consensus price target of $117.83, suggesting a potential downside of 0.39%. Given Teradyne's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Akamai Technologies is more favorable than Teradyne.
Akamai Technologies has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teradyne has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.3% of Akamai Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of Teradyne shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Akamai Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Teradyne shares are held by 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.
Teradyne has a net margin of 16.15% compared to Teradyne's net margin of 14.37%. Akamai Technologies' return on equity of 18.88% beat Teradyne's return on equity.
In the previous week, Teradyne had 35 more articles in the media than Akamai Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for Teradyne and 17 mentions for Akamai Technologies. Akamai Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Teradyne's score of 0.54 indicating that Teradyne is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Akamai Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Teradyne. Akamai Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Teradyne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Akamai Technologies received 1150 more outperform votes than Teradyne when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.76% of users gave Akamai Technologies an outperform vote while only 44.09% of users gave Teradyne an outperform vote.
Summary
Akamai Technologies beats Teradyne on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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