TEP vs. PNN, DRX, YU, SSE, HGEN, JEL, IES, GOOD, OPG, and ATOM
Should you be buying Telecom Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Telecom Plus include Pennon Group (PNN), Drax Group (DRX), Yü Group (YU), SSE (SSE), HydrogenOne Capital Growth (HGEN), Jersey Electricity (JEL), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), Good Energy Group (GOOD), OPG Power Ventures (OPG), and Atome (ATOM). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Pennon Group (LON:PNN) and Telecom Plus (LON:TEP) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Telecom Plus has higher revenue and earnings than Pennon Group. Pennon Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telecom Plus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pennon Group has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telecom Plus has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Telecom Plus has a net margin of 2.42% compared to Telecom Plus' net margin of -2.05%. Pennon Group's return on equity of 31.43% beat Telecom Plus' return on equity.
Pennon Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 852, indicating a potential upside of 22.49%. Given Telecom Plus' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Pennon Group is more favorable than Telecom Plus.
In the previous week, Pennon Group and Pennon Group both had 2 articles in the media. Pennon Group's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Telecom Plus' score of 0.00 indicating that Telecom Plus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
61.8% of Pennon Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.0% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Pennon Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.3% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by 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.
Pennon Group received 158 more outperform votes than Telecom Plus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.95% of users gave Telecom Plus an outperform vote while only 61.96% of users gave Pennon Group an outperform vote.
Pennon Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 44 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Telecom Plus pays an annual dividend of GBX 82 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Pennon Group pays out -73,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Telecom Plus pays out 9,647.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pennon Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Telecom Plus beats Pennon Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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