Technically, JNPR has paced its peers in PXQ, rallying 34.3% since the start of 2010.
Despite the poor performance, options traders are even more bullish toward JNPR than sector leader CSCO.
Many are widely held large-cap stocks, including Avon Products (AVP), Juniper Networks (JNPR), and Energizer Holdings (ENR).
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But while CSCO has struggled from a technical perspective, JNPR has failed to capitalize on this weakness.
What's more, only one of those dissenting brokerage firms has doled out a "sell" rating on JNPR.
Other high-profile investors include Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, and Pradeep Sindhu, co-founder of Juniper Networks (nyse: JNPR).
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Traders should consider playing the stock's January 2011 33 call to take advantage of a continued JNPR rally.
At the closing bell, TDC is up about 2.2%, while JNPR is down about 0.7% on the day Thursday.
Cisco Systems failed to see the threat from Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) and Huawei.
Drilling down on JNPR, the equity is fighting a losing battle with overhead resistance at its 20-week moving average.
Juniper Networks (nasdaq: JNPR - news - people ) counts Internet2 as both a client and a partner.
Juniper Networks ( JNPR - news - people ) has risen 44.7% since the beginning of the year.
Juniper Networks Inc ( NYSE: JNPR), according to The Online Investor.
Taking a closer look at the stock's short-term performance, JNPR has soared along the support of its 10-day and 20-day moving averages since August.
Finally, we turn our attention to Wall Street, where 14 of the 30 analysts following JNPR still rate the stock a "hold, " according to Zacks.
By failing to focus on the end customer, Cisco has been losing market share to Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), Alcatel-Lucent (nYSE:ALU), and Huawei Technologies.
Larger firms such as Microsoft(MSFT), Intel(INTC), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Cisco(CSCO), Juniper(JNPR), IBM( IBM) Red Hat (RHT) and CA( CA) may also benefit.
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On the sentiment front, options traders are bullishly aligned on the security, which is to be expected given JNPR's solid price action during the past several months.
In recent years, Cisco has been losing its lead in the high-end router space to competitor Juniper Networks (nasdaq: JNPR - news - people ).
Typesafe was co-founded in February 2011 by Martin Odersky, the creator of the Scala programming language, and is backed by Greylock Partners, Shasta Ventures, and Juniper Networks (JNPR).
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Of the four stocks I have analyzed technically, United States Steel Corporation ( X) and Juniper Networks Inc. ( JNPR) look the most vulnerable, followed by Netflix Inc. ( NFLX).
Also on the earnings front today, Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Nokia ( NOK), Potash (POT), Juniper Networks ( JNPR), Rambus ( RMBS), and Starbucks ( SBUX) are scheduled to release their quarterly reports.
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He was a top engineer at Check Point Software (Nasdaq: CHKP), co-founded OneSecure and served as the CTO of NetScreen, which was sold to Juniper Networks (Nasdaq:JNPR) in 2004.
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Juniper Networks ( JNPR - news - people ): Options investors populating the provider of telecommunications equipment and services are establishing both bullish and bearish strategies on the stock.
What's more, the number of JNPR shares sold short spiked by more than 10% during the most recent reporting period, and now accounts for a respectable 5.25% of the equity's total float.
These include Ericsson (ERIC), Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), Nokia Siemens Networks which is a joint venture of Nokia (NOK) and Siemens (SI), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Juniper Networks (JNPR), Ciena (CIEN), and Tellabs (TLAB).
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, TDC and JNPR collectively make up 1.63% of the iShares Morningstar Mid Growth Index Fund ETF (JKH) which is up by about 0.6% on the day Thursday.
Corporate earnings have moved to the forefront this morning, with Wall Street zeroing in on Ford Motor (F) and Juniper Networks ( JNPR), both of which are trading sharply lower in the wake of weaker-than-expected quarterly reports.
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Rather than finding a replacement for Raikes within Microsoft, Ballmer turned to an outsider, Juniper Networks (nasdaq: JNPR - news - people ) Chief Operating Officer Stephen Elop, to take on the high-profile job that Raikes defined.
Among the largest underlying components of IGN, in trading today Motorola Solutions Inc. ( NYSE: MSI) is off about 0.6%, F5 Networks, Inc. ( NASD: FFIV) is off about 1.4%, and Juniper Networks Inc ( NYSE: JNPR) is lower by about 2.7%.
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