TU vs. CHT, VOD, USM, VEON, SPOK, SIDU, SYTA, TIGO, SKM, and TMUS
Should you be buying TELUS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TELUS include Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), United States Cellular (USM), VEON (VEON), Spok (SPOK), Sidus Space (SIDU), Siyata Mobile (SYTA), Millicom International Cellular (TIGO), SK Telecom (SKM), and T-Mobile US (TMUS). These companies are all part of the "radiotelephone communication" industry.
TELUS (NYSE:TU) and Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE:CHT) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and earnings.
TELUS presently has a consensus target price of $27.31, indicating a potential upside of 66.03%. Given TELUS's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe TELUS is more favorable than Chunghwa Telecom.
TELUS has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chunghwa Telecom has a beta of 0.18, indicating that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.
49.4% of TELUS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of TELUS shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
TELUS pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Chunghwa Telecom pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. TELUS pays out 284.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chunghwa Telecom pays out 76.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, TELUS had 7 more articles in the media than Chunghwa Telecom. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for TELUS and 1 mentions for Chunghwa Telecom. Chunghwa Telecom's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat TELUS's score of 0.67 indicating that Chunghwa Telecom is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chunghwa Telecom has a net margin of 16.40% compared to TELUS's net margin of 3.73%. Chunghwa Telecom's return on equity of 9.31% beat TELUS's return on equity.
TELUS received 147 more outperform votes than Chunghwa Telecom when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.49% of users gave Chunghwa Telecom an outperform vote while only 60.48% of users gave TELUS an outperform vote.
Chunghwa Telecom has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TELUS. Chunghwa Telecom is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TELUS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chunghwa Telecom beats TELUS on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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