BCE vs. TEF, VIV, XEL, CHT, EIX, ED, VST, WEC, PEG, and AWK
Should you be buying BCE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BCE include Telefónica (TEF), Telefônica Brasil (VIV), Xcel Energy (XEL), Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Edison International (EIX), Consolidated Edison (ED), Vistra (VST), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), and American Water Works (AWK). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Telefónica (NYSE:TEF) and BCE (NYSE:BCE) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
Telefónica has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BCE has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Telefónica received 185 more outperform votes than BCE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.76% of users gave Telefónica an outperform vote while only 56.61% of users gave BCE an outperform vote.
1.1% of Telefónica shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.5% of BCE shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Telefónica shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of BCE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
BCE has a consensus price target of $49.00, suggesting a potential upside of 45.83%. Given Telefónica's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BCE is more favorable than Telefónica.
BCE has a net margin of 7.53% compared to BCE's net margin of -2.16%. Telefónica's return on equity of 16.86% beat BCE's return on equity.
BCE has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Telefónica. Telefónica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BCE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Telefónica pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. BCE pays an annual dividend of $2.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Telefónica pays out -114.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BCE pays out 204.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BCE has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. BCE is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, BCE had 15 more articles in the media than Telefónica. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for BCE and 11 mentions for Telefónica. Telefónica's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat BCE's score of 0.01 indicating that BCE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
BCE beats Telefónica on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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