AAF vs. BT.A, ISAT, ZEG, GAMA, HTWS, TALK, KCOM, MANX, MAI, and BBB
Should you be buying Airtel Africa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Airtel Africa include BT Group (BT.A), Inmarsat (ISAT), Zegona Communications (ZEG), Gamma Communications (GAMA), Helios Towers (HTWS), TalkTalk Telecom Group (TALK), KCOM Group (KCOM), Manx Telecom (MANX), Maintel (MAI), and Bigblu Broadband (BBB). These companies are all part of the "telecom services" industry.
Airtel Africa (LON:AAF) and BT Group (LON:BT.A) are both communication services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
22.0% of Airtel Africa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.4% of BT Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 73.1% of Airtel Africa shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.6% of BT Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Airtel Africa has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BT Group has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Airtel Africa presently has a consensus target price of GBX 127.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.59%. Given Airtel Africa's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Airtel Africa is more favorable than BT Group.
Airtel Africa pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. BT Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Airtel Africa pays out -16,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BT Group pays out 4,444.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
BT Group received 1485 more outperform votes than Airtel Africa when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.19% of users gave Airtel Africa an outperform vote while only 72.64% of users gave BT Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Airtel Africa and Airtel Africa both had 1 articles in the media. Airtel Africa's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat BT Group's score of -0.02 indicating that Airtel Africa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BT Group has higher revenue and earnings than Airtel Africa. Airtel Africa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BT Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BT Group has a net margin of 4.11% compared to Airtel Africa's net margin of -3.30%. BT Group's return on equity of 6.33% beat Airtel Africa's return on equity.
Summary
Airtel Africa and BT Group tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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