AAF vs. ZEG, GAMA, HTWS, RMV, ITV, PSON, AUTO, FOUR, ASCL, and MONY
Should you be buying Airtel Africa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Airtel Africa include Zegona Communications (ZEG), Gamma Communications (GAMA), Helios Towers (HTWS), Rightmove (RMV), ITV (ITV), Pearson (PSON), Auto Trader Group (AUTO), 4imprint Group (FOUR), Ascential (ASCL), and Moneysupermarket.com Group (MONY). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Zegona Communications (LON:ZEG) and Airtel Africa (LON:AAF) are both communication services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Zegona Communications received 88 more outperform votes than Airtel Africa when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.19% of users gave Airtel Africa an outperform vote while only 68.94% of users gave Zegona Communications an outperform vote.
21.6% of Zegona Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.0% of Airtel Africa shares are held by institutional investors. 74.6% of Zegona Communications shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 73.0% of Airtel Africa shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Zegona Communications has a beta of 2.67, suggesting that its stock price is 167% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Airtel Africa has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zegona Communications has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Zegona Communications' net margin of -3.30%. Airtel Africa's return on equity of -2.61% beat Zegona Communications' return on equity.
In the previous week, Zegona Communications had 4 more articles in the media than Airtel Africa. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Zegona Communications and 1 mentions for Airtel Africa. Zegona Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Airtel Africa's score of 0.25 indicating that Airtel Africa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Zegona Communications presently has a consensus target price of GBX 450, indicating a potential upside of 93.97%. Airtel Africa has a consensus target price of GBX 127.50, indicating a potential upside of 6.96%. Given Airtel Africa's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Zegona Communications is more favorable than Airtel Africa.
Zegona Communications pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Airtel Africa pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Zegona Communications pays out -3,846.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Airtel Africa pays out -12,500.0% 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. Airtel Africa is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Zegona Communications has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Airtel Africa. Airtel Africa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zegona Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Zegona Communications beats Airtel Africa on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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