AAF vs. ZEG, GAMA, RMV, ITV, AUTO, FOUR, PSON, ASCL, SONG, and MONY
Should you be buying Airtel Africa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Airtel Africa include Zegona Communications (ZEG), Gamma Communications (GAMA), Rightmove (RMV), ITV (ITV), Auto Trader Group (AUTO), 4imprint Group (FOUR), Pearson (PSON), Ascential (ASCL), Hipgnosis Songs (SONG), and Moneysupermarket.com Group (MONY). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Airtel Africa (LON:AAF) and Zegona Communications (LON:ZEG) are both communication services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Airtel Africa has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zegona Communications has a beta of 2.68, meaning that its stock price is 168% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Airtel Africa pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Zegona Communications pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Airtel Africa pays out 5,714.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Zegona Communications pays out -1,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Airtel Africa currently has a consensus target price of GBX 127.50, indicating a potential upside of 8.33%. Zegona Communications has a consensus target price of GBX 450, indicating a potential upside of 106.42%. Given Zegona Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Zegona Communications is more favorable than Airtel Africa.
In the previous week, Airtel Africa had 8 more articles in the media than Zegona Communications. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Airtel Africa and 2 mentions for Zegona Communications. Zegona Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Airtel Africa's score of -0.06 indicating that Zegona Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Airtel Africa has higher revenue and earnings than Zegona Communications. Zegona Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Airtel Africa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zegona Communications received 87 more outperform votes than Airtel Africa when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.19% of users gave Airtel Africa an outperform vote while only 68.75% of users gave Zegona Communications an outperform vote.
Airtel Africa has a net margin of 2.57% compared to Zegona Communications' net margin of 0.00%. Airtel Africa's return on equity of 7.32% beat Zegona Communications' return on equity.
21.6% of Airtel Africa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.4% of Zegona Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. 72.9% of Airtel Africa shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 74.6% of Zegona Communications shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Airtel Africa beats Zegona Communications on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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