TEP vs. YU, FLOW, SSE, UKW, DRX, PNN, GLO, JEL, IES, and GOOD
Should you be buying Telecom Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Telecom Plus include Yü Group (YU), Flowgroup (FLOW), SSE (SSE), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), Drax Group (DRX), Pennon Group (PNN), ContourGlobal (GLO), Jersey Electricity (JEL), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), and Good Energy Group (GOOD). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Telecom Plus vs. Its Competitors
Yü Group (LON:YU) and Telecom Plus (LON:TEP) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Yü Group has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telecom Plus has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yü Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 56 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Telecom Plus pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Yü Group pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Telecom Plus pays out 88.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Yü Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Telecom Plus has a consensus price target of GBX 2,600, suggesting a potential upside of 38.30%. Given Telecom Plus' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Telecom Plus is more favorable than Yü Group.
Yü Group has a net margin of 6.62% compared to Telecom Plus' net margin of 3.48%. Yü Group's return on equity of 77.26% beat Telecom Plus' return on equity.
In the previous week, Telecom Plus had 1 more articles in the media than Yü Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Telecom Plus and 1 mentions for Yü Group. Telecom Plus' average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Yü Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Telecom Plus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
9.4% of Yü Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.3% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by institutional investors. 72.4% of Yü Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Telecom Plus has higher revenue and earnings than Yü Group. Yü Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telecom Plus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Telecom Plus beats Yü Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:TEP) was last updated on 9/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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