Needham Sticks to Its Buy Rating for Juniper Networks (JNPR)


Needham analyst Alex Henderson maintained a Buy rating on Juniper Networks (JNPR) today and set a price target of $29.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $23.99.

According to TipRanks.com, Henderson is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 14.1% and a 51.3% success rate. Henderson covers the Consumer Goods sector, focusing on stocks such as Cisco Systems Inc, Lumentum Holdings, and Arista Networks.

The word on The Street in general, suggests a Moderate Buy analyst consensus rating for Juniper Networks with a $27.00 average price target.

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Based on Juniper Networks’ latest earnings release for the quarter ending June 30, the company reported a quarterly net profit of $46.2 million. In comparison, last year the company had a net profit of $224 million.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 49 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of JNPR in relation to earlier this year.

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Juniper Networks, Inc. engages in the design, development, and sale of products and services for high-performance networks. Its products address network requirements for global service provides, cloud providers, national governments, research and public sector organizations, and other enterprises.

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