FN vs. CIEN, MKSI, OTEX, OLED, DBX, AMKR, MMYT, GTLB, UI, and DSGX
Should you be buying Fabrinet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fabrinet include Ciena (CIEN), MKS Instruments (MKSI), Open Text (OTEX), Universal Display (OLED), Dropbox (DBX), Amkor Technology (AMKR), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), GitLab (GTLB), Ubiquiti (UI), and The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX). 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 superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
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.
Ciena currently has a consensus target price of $58.79, indicating a potential upside of 20.34%. Fabrinet has a consensus target price of $161.00, indicating a potential downside of 30.14%. Given Fabrinet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Ciena is more favorable than Fabrinet.
92.0% of Ciena shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Fabrinet shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ciena shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Fabrinet shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Fabrinet has a net margin of 9.90% compared to Fabrinet's net margin of 5.22%. Ciena's return on equity of 17.67% beat Fabrinet's return on equity.
Ciena has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Fabrinet has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ciena and Ciena both had 11 articles in the media. Ciena's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Fabrinet's score of 0.59 indicating that Fabrinet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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