CIEN vs. FN, DJT, KT, WTS, SAIC, ARW, LYFT, YNDX, S, and MTSI
Should you be buying Ciena stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ciena include Fabrinet (FN), Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), KT (KT), Watts Water Technologies (WTS), Science Applications International (SAIC), Arrow Electronics (ARW), Lyft (LYFT), Yandex (YNDX), SentinelOne (S), and MACOM Technology Solutions (MTSI). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) and Fabrinet (NYSE:FN) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and earnings.
In the previous week, Ciena had 1 more articles in the media than Fabrinet. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Ciena and 12 mentions for Fabrinet. Fabrinet's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Ciena's score of 0.55 indicating that Fabrinet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.0% of Ciena shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Fabrinet shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ciena shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Fabrinet shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ciena has higher revenue and earnings than Fabrinet. Fabrinet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ciena, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fabrinet has a net margin of 9.90% compared to Ciena's net margin of 5.22%. Fabrinet's return on equity of 17.67% beat Ciena's return on equity.
Ciena has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Fabrinet has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ciena presently has a consensus price target of $58.79, suggesting a potential upside of 20.31%. Fabrinet has a consensus price target of $161.00, suggesting a potential downside of 30.44%. Given Ciena's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ciena is more favorable than Fabrinet.
Ciena received 597 more outperform votes than Fabrinet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.62% of users gave Ciena an outperform vote while only 74.14% of users gave Fabrinet an outperform vote.
Summary
Ciena beats Fabrinet on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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