TMUS vs. CSCO, INTU, AMAT, TXN, VZ, QCOM, ADBE, IBM, NOW, and MU
Should you be buying T-Mobile US stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of T-Mobile US include Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intuit (INTU), Applied Materials (AMAT), Texas Instruments (TXN), Verizon Communications (VZ), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Adobe (ADBE), International Business Machines (IBM), ServiceNow (NOW), and Micron Technology (MU). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) and T-Mobile US (NASDAQ:TMUS) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Cisco Systems has higher earnings, but lower revenue than T-Mobile US. Cisco Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than T-Mobile US, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cisco Systems pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. T-Mobile US pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Cisco Systems pays out 48.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. T-Mobile US pays out 35.4% 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. Cisco Systems has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Cisco Systems is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Cisco Systems has a net margin of 23.49% compared to Cisco Systems' net margin of 11.15%. T-Mobile US's return on equity of 33.01% beat Cisco Systems' return on equity.
73.3% of Cisco Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.5% of T-Mobile US shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Cisco Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of T-Mobile US shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cisco Systems currently has a consensus price target of $56.36, indicating a potential upside of 16.59%. T-Mobile US has a consensus price target of $186.33, indicating a potential upside of 13.91%. Given T-Mobile US's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Cisco Systems is more favorable than T-Mobile US.
Cisco Systems has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, T-Mobile US has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cisco Systems had 30 more articles in the media than T-Mobile US. MarketBeat recorded 70 mentions for Cisco Systems and 40 mentions for T-Mobile US. Cisco Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat T-Mobile US's score of 0.55 indicating that T-Mobile US is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cisco Systems received 1452 more outperform votes than T-Mobile US when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.33% of users gave Cisco Systems an outperform vote while only 69.16% of users gave T-Mobile US an outperform vote.
Summary
Cisco Systems beats T-Mobile US on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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