HPQ vs. HPE, JNPR, FFIV, ANET, GRMN, FICO, WIT, GFS, ANSS, and MDB
Should you be buying HP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HP include Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Juniper Networks (JNPR), F5 (FFIV), Arista Networks (ANET), Garmin (GRMN), Fair Isaac (FICO), Wipro (WIT), GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GFS), ANSYS (ANSS), and MongoDB (MDB). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) and HP (NYSE:HPQ) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise presently has a consensus price target of $17.91, indicating a potential upside of 8.34%. HP has a consensus price target of $33.11, indicating a potential upside of 18.51%. Given Hewlett Packard Enterprise's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HP is more favorable than Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
80.8% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of HP shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of HP shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a net margin of 6.81% compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's net margin of 6.45%. HP's return on equity of 9.12% beat Hewlett Packard Enterprise's return on equity.
In the previous week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise had 3 more articles in the media than HP. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Hewlett Packard Enterprise and 10 mentions for HP. Hewlett Packard Enterprise's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat HP's score of 0.22 indicating that HP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HP received 710 more outperform votes than Hewlett Packard Enterprise when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.44% of users gave Hewlett Packard Enterprise an outperform vote while only 60.94% of users gave HP an outperform vote.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HP has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. HP pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Hewlett Packard Enterprise pays out 35.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HP pays out 32.2% 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. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and HP has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. HP is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
HP has higher revenue and earnings than Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hewlett Packard Enterprise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
HP beats Hewlett Packard Enterprise on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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