TU vs. CHT, DTE, ETR, FE, AWK, TEF, PPL, WEC, ES, and FTS
Should you be buying TELUS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TELUS include Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), DTE Energy (DTE), Entergy (ETR), FirstEnergy (FE), American Water Works (AWK), Telefónica (TEF), PPL (PPL), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Eversource Energy (ES), and Fortis (FTS). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE:CHT) and TELUS (NYSE:TU) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
2.1% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.4% of TELUS shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of TELUS shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
TELUS has a consensus target price of $27.31, suggesting a potential upside of 67.56%. Given Chunghwa Telecom's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TELUS is more favorable than Chunghwa Telecom.
Chunghwa Telecom has higher revenue and 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.
In the previous week, TELUS had 2 more articles in the media than Chunghwa Telecom. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for TELUS and 2 mentions for Chunghwa Telecom. Chunghwa Telecom's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat TELUS's score of 0.91 indicating that TELUS is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. TELUS pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Chunghwa Telecom pays out 76.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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. TELUS has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. TELUS is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Chunghwa Telecom has a net margin of 16.40% compared to Chunghwa Telecom's net margin of 3.73%. TELUS's return on equity of 9.31% beat Chunghwa Telecom's return on equity.
Chunghwa Telecom has a beta of 0.18, suggesting that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TELUS has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
TELUS beats Chunghwa Telecom on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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