VIV vs. TEF, BCE, NRG, AGR, EBR, ATO, LNT, AES, CMS, and NI
Should you be buying Telefônica Brasil stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Telefônica Brasil include Telefónica (TEF), BCE (BCE), NRG Energy (NRG), Avangrid (AGR), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), Atmos Energy (ATO), Alliant Energy (LNT), AES (AES), CMS Energy (CMS), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Telefónica (NYSE:TEF) and Telefônica Brasil (NYSE:VIV) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Telefónica pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Telefônica Brasil pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Telefónica pays out -114.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Telefônica Brasil pays out 48.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Telefónica is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Telefônica Brasil has a consensus price target of $11.60, suggesting a potential upside of 16.94%. Given Telefónica's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Telefônica Brasil is more favorable than Telefónica.
Telefônica Brasil has a net margin of 9.70% compared to Telefônica Brasil's net margin of -2.16%. Telefônica Brasil's return on equity of 7.38% beat Telefónica's return on equity.
Telefônica Brasil has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Telefónica. Telefónica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telefônica Brasil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Telefónica has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telefônica Brasil has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Telefónica had 5 more articles in the media than Telefônica Brasil. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Telefónica and 1 mentions for Telefônica Brasil. Telefônica Brasil's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Telefónica'saverage media sentiment score.
1.1% of Telefónica shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.2% of Telefônica Brasil shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Telefónica shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Telefónica received 238 more outperform votes than Telefônica Brasil when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Telefônica Brasil an outperform vote while only 57.76% of users gave Telefónica an outperform vote.
Summary
Telefônica Brasil beats Telefónica on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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