BCE vs. AMX, TEF, VIV, KT, FYBR, PHI, TDS, LUMN, IDT, and SHEN
Should you be buying BCE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BCE include América Móvil (AMX), Telefónica (TEF), Telefônica Brasil (VIV), KT (KT), Frontier Communications Parent (FYBR), PLDT (PHI), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), Lumen Technologies (LUMN), IDT (IDT), and Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN). These companies are all part of the "telephone communication, except radio" industry.
BCE (NYSE:BCE) and América Móvil (NYSE:AMX) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends and community ranking.
América Móvil received 82 more outperform votes than BCE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.13% of users gave América Móvil an outperform vote while only 56.61% of users gave BCE an outperform vote.
BCE has a net margin of 7.53% compared to América Móvil's net margin of 7.28%. BCE's return on equity of 16.86% beat América Móvil's return on equity.
BCE currently has a consensus target price of $49.00, suggesting a potential upside of 42.07%. América Móvil has a consensus target price of $21.47, suggesting a potential upside of 20.52%. Given BCE's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BCE is more favorable than América Móvil.
41.5% of BCE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of América Móvil shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of BCE shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of América Móvil shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BCE pays an annual dividend of $2.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. América Móvil pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. BCE pays out 204.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. América Móvil pays out 24.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
BCE has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, América Móvil has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
América Móvil has higher revenue and earnings than BCE. América Móvil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BCE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BCE had 6 more articles in the media than América Móvil. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for BCE and 3 mentions for América Móvil. América Móvil's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat BCE's score of 1.45 indicating that América Móvil is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
BCE and América Móvil tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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