SPOK vs. SHEN, PTNR, CCI, SBAC, USM, TDS, BB, SIDU, SYTA, and TIGO
Should you be buying Spok stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spok include Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Partner Communications (PTNR), Crown Castle (CCI), SBA Communications (SBAC), United States Cellular (USM), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), BlackBerry (BB), Sidus Space (SIDU), Siyata Mobile (SYTA), and Millicom International Cellular (TIGO).
Spok (NASDAQ:SPOK) and Shenandoah Telecommunications (NASDAQ:SHEN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Spok has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Shenandoah Telecommunications. Shenandoah Telecommunications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spok, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spok pays an annual dividend of $1.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Shenandoah Telecommunications pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Spok pays out 150.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Shenandoah Telecommunications pays out 2.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Shenandoah Telecommunications has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 40.37%. Given Shenandoah Telecommunications' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Shenandoah Telecommunications is more favorable than Spok.
Spok has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shenandoah Telecommunications has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Shenandoah Telecommunications had 2 more articles in the media than Spok. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Shenandoah Telecommunications and 1 mentions for Spok. Shenandoah Telecommunications' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Spok's score of 0.75 indicating that Shenandoah Telecommunications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
50.8% of Spok shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.0% of Shenandoah Telecommunications shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.9% of Spok shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Shenandoah Telecommunications shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Shenandoah Telecommunications received 234 more outperform votes than Spok when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.76% of users gave Shenandoah Telecommunications an outperform vote while only 59.40% of users gave Spok an outperform vote.
Shenandoah Telecommunications has a net margin of 77.44% compared to Spok's net margin of 11.93%. Spok's return on equity of 10.23% beat Shenandoah Telecommunications' return on equity.
Summary
Shenandoah Telecommunications beats Spok on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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