TEP vs. PNN, DRX, YU, SSE, HGEN, JEL, IES, GOOD, OPG, and ATOM
Should you be buying Telecom Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Telecom Plus include Pennon Group (PNN), Drax Group (DRX), Yü Group (YU), SSE (SSE), HydrogenOne Capital Growth (HGEN), Jersey Electricity (JEL), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), Good Energy Group (GOOD), OPG Power Ventures (OPG), and Atome (ATOM). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Pennon Group (LON:PNN) and Telecom Plus (LON:TEP) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Pennon Group received 158 more outperform votes than Telecom Plus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.95% of users gave Telecom Plus an outperform vote while only 62.04% of users gave Pennon Group an outperform vote.
56.8% of Pennon Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.0% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Pennon Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.3% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Pennon Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 950, indicating a potential upside of 43.61%. Given Telecom Plus' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pennon Group is more favorable than Telecom Plus.
Telecom Plus has higher revenue and earnings than Pennon Group. Pennon 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.
Pennon Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 44 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Telecom Plus pays an annual dividend of GBX 82 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Pennon Group pays out -73,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Telecom Plus pays out 9,647.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pennon Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Telecom Plus has a net margin of 2.42% compared to Telecom Plus' net margin of -2.05%. Pennon Group's return on equity of 31.43% beat Telecom Plus' return on equity.
Pennon Group has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telecom Plus has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Pennon Group had 2 more articles in the media than Telecom Plus. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Pennon Group and 1 mentions for Telecom Plus. Telecom Plus' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Pennon Group's score of 1.32 indicating that Pennon Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Telecom Plus beats Pennon Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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