NOK vs. MSI, ERIC, UI, VSAT, HLIT, PL, AVNW, COMM, GILT, and CRNT
Should you be buying Nokia Oyj stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nokia Oyj include Motorola Solutions (MSI), Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (ERIC), Ubiquiti (UI), Viasat (VSAT), Harmonic (HLIT), Planet Labs PBC (PL), Aviat Networks (AVNW), CommScope (COMM), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT), and Ceragon Networks (CRNT). These companies are all part of the "radio & t.v. communications equipment" industry.
Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) and Nokia Oyj (NYSE:NOK) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.
Motorola Solutions has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nokia Oyj has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Nokia Oyj had 2 more articles in the media than Motorola Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Nokia Oyj and 12 mentions for Motorola Solutions. Nokia Oyj's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Motorola Solutions' score of 0.33 indicating that Motorola Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Motorola Solutions has a net margin of 13.64% compared to Motorola Solutions' net margin of 3.90%. Nokia Oyj's return on equity of 398.16% beat Motorola Solutions' return on equity.
Motorola Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $358.86, suggesting a potential downside of 3.29%. Nokia Oyj has a consensus target price of $4.42, suggesting a potential upside of 12.92%. Given Motorola Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nokia Oyj is more favorable than Motorola Solutions.
84.2% of Motorola Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.3% of Nokia Oyj shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Motorola Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nokia Oyj received 196 more outperform votes than Motorola Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.41% of users gave Motorola Solutions an outperform vote while only 60.88% of users gave Nokia Oyj an outperform vote.
Motorola Solutions pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Nokia Oyj pays an annual dividend of $0.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Motorola Solutions pays out 48.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nokia Oyj pays out 68.8% 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. Motorola Solutions has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Nokia Oyj has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Motorola Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nokia Oyj. Nokia Oyj is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Motorola Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Motorola Solutions beats Nokia Oyj on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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