TEP vs. YU, FLOW, SSE, DRX, PNN, GLO, IES, HGEN, AMPH, and JEL
Should you be buying Telecom Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Telecom Plus include Yü Group (YU), Flowgroup (FLOW), SSE (SSE), Drax Group (DRX), Pennon Group (PNN), ContourGlobal (GLO), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), HydrogenOne Capital Growth (HGEN), Aggregated Micro Power (AMPH), and Jersey Electricity (JEL). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Yü Group (LON:YU) and Telecom Plus (LON:TEP) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Yü Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Telecom Plus pays an annual dividend of GBX 82 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Yü Group pays out 2,366.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Telecom Plus pays out 9,647.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Yü Group has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telecom Plus has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yü Group has a net margin of 6.71% compared to Yü Group's net margin of 2.42%. Telecom Plus' return on equity of 100.20% beat Yü Group's return on equity.
Telecom Plus has higher revenue and earnings than Yü Group. Yü Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telecom Plus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yü Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,415, indicating a potential downside of 18.91%. Given Telecom Plus' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Yü Group is more favorable than Telecom Plus.
In the previous week, Yü Group had 1 more articles in the media than Telecom Plus. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Yü Group and 1 mentions for Telecom Plus. Yü Group's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Telecom Plus' score of 0.00 indicating that Telecom Plus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
8.0% of Yü Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.7% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by institutional investors. 73.1% of Yü Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Telecom Plus received 297 more outperform votes than Yü Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Yü Group an outperform vote while only 70.95% of users gave Telecom Plus an outperform vote.
Summary
Yü Group beats Telecom Plus on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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