PHI vs. VIV, TIMB, KT, FYBR, TEO, TDS, LUMN, IDT, SHEN, and ATEX
Should you be buying PLDT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PLDT include Telefônica Brasil (VIV), TIM (TIMB), KT (KT), Frontier Communications Parent (FYBR), Telecom Argentina (TEO), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), Lumen Technologies (LUMN), IDT (IDT), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), and Anterix (ATEX). These companies are all part of the "telephone communication, except radio" industry.
Telefônica Brasil (NYSE:VIV) and PLDT (NYSE:PHI) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
5.2% of Telefônica Brasil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.3% of PLDT shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of PLDT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Telefônica Brasil pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. PLDT pays an annual dividend of $1.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Telefônica Brasil pays out 47.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
PLDT received 5 more outperform votes than Telefônica Brasil when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.13% of users gave PLDT an outperform vote while only 59.90% of users gave Telefônica Brasil an outperform vote.
Telefônica Brasil has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PLDT has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Telefônica Brasil has higher revenue and earnings than PLDT.
In the previous week, Telefônica Brasil had 3 more articles in the media than PLDT. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Telefônica Brasil and 1 mentions for PLDT. PLDT's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Telefônica Brasil's score of 0.17 indicating that Telefônica Brasil is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PLDT has a net margin of 12.86% compared to PLDT's net margin of 9.63%. Telefônica Brasil's return on equity of 21.34% beat PLDT's return on equity.
Telefônica Brasil currently has a consensus target price of $11.35, suggesting a potential upside of 35.60%. Given PLDT's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Telefônica Brasil is more favorable than PLDT.
Summary
Telefônica Brasil beats PLDT on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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