VOD vs. SKM, WDC, MSTR, GIB, PINS, ASX, HPE, GFS, PTC, and KEYS
Should you be buying Vodafone Group Public stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vodafone Group Public include SK Telecom (SKM), Western Digital (WDC), MicroStrategy (MSTR), CGI (GIB), Pinterest (PINS), ASE Technology (ASX), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GFS), PTC (PTC), and Keysight Technologies (KEYS).
Vodafone Group Public (NASDAQ:VOD) and SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) are both communication services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Vodafone Group Public pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. SK Telecom pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. SK Telecom pays out 127.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Vodafone Group Public received 951 more outperform votes than SK Telecom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.63% of users gave Vodafone Group Public an outperform vote while only 64.95% of users gave SK Telecom an outperform vote.
Vodafone Group Public presently has a consensus target price of $14.45, indicating a potential upside of 67.63%. Given Vodafone Group Public's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Vodafone Group Public is more favorable than SK Telecom.
SK Telecom has a net margin of 6.19% compared to Vodafone Group Public's net margin of 0.00%. SK Telecom's return on equity of 8.78% beat Vodafone Group Public's return on equity.
Vodafone Group Public has higher revenue and earnings than SK Telecom.
In the previous week, Vodafone Group Public had 11 more articles in the media than SK Telecom. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Vodafone Group Public and 0 mentions for SK Telecom. Vodafone Group Public's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat SK Telecom's score of 0.00 indicating that Vodafone Group Public is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vodafone Group Public has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SK Telecom has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
7.8% of Vodafone Group Public shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Vodafone Group Public shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of SK Telecom shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Vodafone Group Public beats SK Telecom on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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