TEF vs. BCE, VIV, VST, WEC, TU, AWK, EIX, ETR, DTE, and FE
Should you be buying Telefónica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Telefónica include BCE (BCE), Telefônica Brasil (VIV), Vistra (VST), WEC Energy Group (WEC), TELUS (TU), American Water Works (AWK), Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), DTE Energy (DTE), and FirstEnergy (FE). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Telefónica (NYSE:TEF) and BCE (NYSE:BCE) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
BCE has a net margin of 8.82% compared to Telefónica's net margin of -2.16%. BCE's return on equity of 17.13% beat Telefónica's return on equity.
Telefónica received 185 more outperform votes than BCE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.76% of users gave Telefónica an outperform vote while only 56.61% of users gave BCE an outperform vote.
Telefónica pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. BCE pays an annual dividend of $2.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Telefónica pays out -114.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BCE pays out 174.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
BCE has a consensus target price of $49.00, suggesting a potential upside of 50.21%. Given BCE's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BCE is more favorable than Telefónica.
In the previous week, BCE had 11 more articles in the media than Telefónica. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for BCE and 5 mentions for Telefónica. BCE's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Telefónica's score of 0.13 indicating that BCE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BCE has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Telefónica. Telefónica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BCE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
1.1% of Telefónica shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.5% of BCE shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Telefónica shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of BCE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Telefónica has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BCE has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BCE beats Telefónica on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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