PHI vs. FYBR, KT, CLS, ALIT, SMAR, BILI, PEGA, DV, FRSH, and TENB
Should you be buying PLDT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PLDT include Frontier Communications Parent (FYBR), KT (KT), Celestica (CLS), Alight (ALIT), Smartsheet (SMAR), Bilibili (BILI), Pegasystems (PEGA), DoubleVerify (DV), Freshworks (FRSH), and Tenable (TENB). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Frontier Communications Parent (NASDAQ:FYBR) and PLDT (NYSE:PHI) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
PLDT has a net margin of 12.61% compared to PLDT's net margin of 0.50%. Frontier Communications Parent's return on equity of 20.61% beat PLDT's return on equity.
PLDT received 327 more outperform votes than Frontier Communications Parent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.13% of users gave PLDT an outperform vote while only 55.17% of users gave Frontier Communications Parent an outperform vote.
Frontier Communications Parent has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PLDT has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
2.3% of PLDT shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Frontier Communications Parent shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of PLDT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Frontier Communications Parent presently has a consensus target price of $27.43, suggesting a potential upside of 7.06%. Given PLDT's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Frontier Communications Parent is more favorable than PLDT.
PLDT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Frontier Communications Parent. PLDT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Frontier Communications Parent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Frontier Communications Parent had 4 more articles in the media than PLDT. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Frontier Communications Parent and 4 mentions for PLDT. PLDT's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Frontier Communications Parent's score of 0.45 indicating that Frontier Communications Parent is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
PLDT beats Frontier Communications Parent on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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