CHT vs. TU, BCE, XEL, ED, EIX, PEG, WEC, TEF, VST, and PCG
Should you be buying Chunghwa Telecom stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chunghwa Telecom include TELUS (TU), BCE (BCE), Xcel Energy (XEL), Consolidated Edison (ED), Edison International (EIX), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Telefónica (TEF), Vistra (VST), and PG&E (PCG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE:CHT) and TELUS (NYSE:TU) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Chunghwa Telecom has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TELUS. Chunghwa Telecom is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TELUS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TELUS has a consensus target price of $27.31, suggesting a potential upside of 69.96%. Given TELUS's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TELUS is more favorable than Chunghwa Telecom.
Chunghwa Telecom pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. TELUS pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Chunghwa Telecom pays out 75.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. TELUS pays out 258.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Chunghwa Telecom has a net margin of 16.57% compared to TELUS's net margin of 4.18%. Chunghwa Telecom's return on equity of 9.38% beat TELUS's return on equity.
In the previous week, TELUS had 9 more articles in the media than Chunghwa Telecom. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for TELUS and 1 mentions for Chunghwa Telecom. TELUS's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Chunghwa Telecom's score of 0.68 indicating that TELUS is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TELUS received 147 more outperform votes than Chunghwa Telecom when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.49% of users gave Chunghwa Telecom an outperform vote while only 60.48% of users gave TELUS an outperform vote.
2.1% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.4% of TELUS shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of TELUS shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chunghwa Telecom has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TELUS has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
TELUS beats Chunghwa Telecom on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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