LUMN vs. IDT, CNSL, ATNI, VZ, T, TDS, SHEN, ATEX, CXDO, and SURG
Should you be buying Lumen Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lumen Technologies include IDT (IDT), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), ATN International (ATNI), Verizon Communications (VZ), AT&T (T), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Anterix (ATEX), Crexendo (CXDO), and SurgePays (SURG). These companies are all part of the "telephone communication, except radio" industry.
Lumen Technologies (NYSE:LUMN) and IDT (NYSE:IDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Lumen Technologies has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDT has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IDT had 2 more articles in the media than Lumen Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for IDT and 4 mentions for Lumen Technologies. Lumen Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat IDT's score of 0.52 indicating that Lumen Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
IDT has a net margin of 3.08% compared to Lumen Technologies' net margin of -76.21%. IDT's return on equity of 20.18% beat Lumen Technologies' return on equity.
66.2% of Lumen Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.3% of IDT shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Lumen Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of IDT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lumen Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $1.76, indicating a potential upside of 36.63%. Given Lumen Technologies' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lumen Technologies is more favorable than IDT.
IDT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lumen Technologies. Lumen Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IDT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lumen Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 77.5%. IDT pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Lumen Technologies pays out -9.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDT pays out 13.8% 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. Lumen Technologies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lumen Technologies received 406 more outperform votes than IDT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.50% of users gave IDT an outperform vote while only 59.69% of users gave Lumen Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
IDT beats Lumen Technologies on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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