TU vs. CHT, AWK, DTE, ETR, FE, TEF, WEC, ES, VST, and PPL
Should you be buying TELUS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TELUS include Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), American Water Works (AWK), DTE Energy (DTE), Entergy (ETR), FirstEnergy (FE), Telefónica (TEF), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Eversource Energy (ES), Vistra (VST), and PPL (PPL). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE:CHT) and TELUS (NYSE:TU) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
In the previous week, Chunghwa Telecom had 9 more articles in the media than TELUS. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Chunghwa Telecom and 0 mentions for TELUS. TELUS's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Chunghwa Telecom's score of -0.59 indicating that Chunghwa Telecom is being referred to more favorably in the media.
2.1% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.4% of TELUS shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of TELUS shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chunghwa Telecom has a beta of 0.18, indicating that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TELUS has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chunghwa Telecom pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. TELUS pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. 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. TELUS pays out 258.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. TELUS has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. TELUS is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
TELUS has a consensus target price of $27.31, suggesting a potential upside of 66.74%. Given Chunghwa Telecom's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe TELUS is more favorable than Chunghwa Telecom.
Chunghwa Telecom has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
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.
Chunghwa Telecom has a net margin of 16.40% compared to Chunghwa Telecom's net margin of 4.18%. TELUS's return on equity of 9.40% beat Chunghwa Telecom's return on equity.
Summary
Chunghwa Telecom beats TELUS on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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