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.
TELUS (NYSE:TU) and Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE:CHT) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
TELUS pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Chunghwa Telecom pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. 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. Chunghwa Telecom pays out 76.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Chunghwa Telecom has a net margin of 16.40% compared to TELUS's net margin of 3.73%. Chunghwa Telecom's return on equity of 9.31% beat TELUS's return on equity.
49.4% of TELUS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of TELUS shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, TELUS had 4 more articles in the media than Chunghwa Telecom. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for TELUS and 2 mentions for Chunghwa Telecom. TELUS's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Chunghwa Telecom's score of 0.86 indicating that TELUS is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TELUS has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chunghwa Telecom has a beta of 0.18, meaning that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
TELUS presently has a consensus target price of $27.31, indicating a potential upside of 67.36%. Given TELUS's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TELUS is more favorable than Chunghwa Telecom.
Chunghwa Telecom has lower revenue, but higher 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.
Summary
TELUS beats Chunghwa Telecom on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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