CNSL vs. ATEX, ATNI, IDT, SHEN, CXDO, TDS, YORW, CLNE, GNE, and CWCO
Should you be buying Consolidated Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Consolidated Communications include Anterix (ATEX), ATN International (ATNI), IDT (IDT), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Crexendo (CXDO), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), York Water (YORW), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), Genie Energy (GNE), and Consolidated Water (CWCO).
Consolidated Communications (NASDAQ:CNSL) and Anterix (NASDAQ:ATEX) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Anterix has a net margin of 447.16% compared to Consolidated Communications' net margin of -22.53%. Consolidated Communications' return on equity of -16.89% beat Anterix's return on equity.
Anterix has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Consolidated Communications. Consolidated Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Anterix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Consolidated Communications has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Anterix has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Consolidated Communications received 267 more outperform votes than Anterix when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.89% of users gave Consolidated Communications an outperform vote while only 47.95% of users gave Anterix an outperform vote.
Anterix has a consensus target price of $58.00, indicating a potential upside of 80.63%. Given Anterix's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Anterix is more favorable than Consolidated Communications.
In the previous week, Consolidated Communications had 3 more articles in the media than Anterix. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Consolidated Communications and 2 mentions for Anterix. Anterix's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Consolidated Communications' score of -0.19 indicating that Anterix is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
80.0% of Consolidated Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.7% of Anterix shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Consolidated Communications shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.7% of Anterix shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Anterix beats Consolidated Communications on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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