ASTS vs. TME, TEF, FOXA, VOD, FWONK, TU, FOX, WBD, BCE, and TLK
Should you be buying AST SpaceMobile stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AST SpaceMobile include Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), Telefónica (TEF), FOX (FOXA), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), Formula One Group (FWONK), TELUS (TU), FOX (FOX), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), BCE (BCE), and Perusahaan Perseroan (Persero) PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (TLK). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
AST SpaceMobile vs.
AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ:ASTS) and Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE:TME) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
AST SpaceMobile presently has a consensus price target of $42.40, suggesting a potential upside of 77.93%. Tencent Music Entertainment Group has a consensus price target of $15.00, suggesting a potential downside of 11.87%. Given AST SpaceMobile's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe AST SpaceMobile is more favorable than Tencent Music Entertainment Group.
61.0% of AST SpaceMobile shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.3% of Tencent Music Entertainment Group shares are held by institutional investors. 34.2% of AST SpaceMobile shares are held 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.
Tencent Music Entertainment Group has higher revenue and earnings than AST SpaceMobile. AST SpaceMobile is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tencent Music Entertainment Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AST SpaceMobile has a beta of 2.05, indicating that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tencent Music Entertainment Group has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AST SpaceMobile had 16 more articles in the media than Tencent Music Entertainment Group. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for AST SpaceMobile and 14 mentions for Tencent Music Entertainment Group. Tencent Music Entertainment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat AST SpaceMobile's score of 0.25 indicating that Tencent Music Entertainment Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tencent Music Entertainment Group received 100 more outperform votes than AST SpaceMobile when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.29% of users gave AST SpaceMobile an outperform vote while only 59.26% of users gave Tencent Music Entertainment Group an outperform vote.
Tencent Music Entertainment Group has a net margin of 21.53% compared to AST SpaceMobile's net margin of 0.00%. Tencent Music Entertainment Group's return on equity of 10.67% beat AST SpaceMobile's return on equity.
Summary
Tencent Music Entertainment Group beats AST SpaceMobile on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ASTS) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
