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Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN) Competitors

$22.70
-0.43 (-1.86%)
(As of 11/28/2023 ET)
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Today's Range
$22.58
$23.05
50-Day Range
$20.40
$24.74
52-Week Range
$15.62
$25.51
Volume
74,809 shs
Average Volume
117,625 shs
Market Capitalization
$1.14 billion
P/E Ratio
324.29
Dividend Yield
0.40%
Price Target
$22.00

SHEN vs. TDS, IDT, CNSL, MSEX, KEN, NWN, HE, VEON, UTL, and CLNE

Should you be buying Shenandoah Telecommunications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shenandoah Telecommunications include Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), IDT (IDT), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Middlesex Water (MSEX), Kenon (KEN), Northwest Natural (NWN), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), VEON (VEON), Unitil (UTL), and Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.

Shenandoah Telecommunications vs.

Telephone and Data Systems (NYSE:TDS) and Shenandoah Telecommunications (NASDAQ:SHEN) are both utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.

Telephone and Data Systems presently has a consensus target price of $26.33, indicating a potential upside of 39.18%. Shenandoah Telecommunications has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.08%. Given Shenandoah Telecommunications' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Telephone and Data Systems is more favorable than Shenandoah Telecommunications.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Telephone and Data Systems
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Shenandoah Telecommunications
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Telephone and Data Systems has higher revenue and earnings than Shenandoah Telecommunications. Telephone and Data Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shenandoah Telecommunications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Telephone and Data Systems$5.41B0.39$62M-$0.79-23.95
Shenandoah Telecommunications$267.37M4.27-$8.38M$0.07324.29

Telephone and Data Systems has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shenandoah Telecommunications has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Telephone and Data Systems and Telephone and Data Systems both had 2 articles in the media. Telephone and Data Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Shenandoah Telecommunications' score of 0.00 indicating that Shenandoah Telecommunications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Telephone and Data Systems
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Shenandoah Telecommunications
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

95.4% of Telephone and Data Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.6% of Shenandoah Telecommunications shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.4% of Telephone and Data Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Shenandoah Telecommunications shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Shenandoah Telecommunications received 143 more outperform votes than Telephone and Data Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.98% of users gave Shenandoah Telecommunications an outperform vote while only 65.60% of users gave Telephone and Data Systems an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Telephone and Data SystemsOutperform Votes
288
65.60%
Underperform Votes
151
34.40%
Shenandoah TelecommunicationsOutperform Votes
431
67.98%
Underperform Votes
203
32.02%

Shenandoah Telecommunications has a net margin of 1.27% compared to Shenandoah Telecommunications' net margin of -0.38%. Telephone and Data Systems' return on equity of 0.56% beat Shenandoah Telecommunications' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Telephone and Data Systems-0.38% -0.36% -0.14%
Shenandoah Telecommunications 1.27%0.56%0.36%

Telephone and Data Systems pays an annual dividend of $0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Shenandoah Telecommunications pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Telephone and Data Systems pays out -93.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shenandoah Telecommunications pays out 128.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Telephone and Data Systems has increased its dividend for 50 consecutive years and Shenandoah Telecommunications has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Telephone and Data Systems is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Summary

Telephone and Data Systems beats Shenandoah Telecommunications on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.


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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ 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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SHEN vs. The Competition

MetricShenandoah TelecommunicationsTelephone communication, except radio IndustryUtilities SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.14B$22.30B$12.61B$6.69B
Dividend Yield0.38%3.78%4.28%6.96%
P/E Ratio324.2916.3898.2011.72
Price / Sales4.278.1727.0076.02
Price / Cash18.1112.4350.0322.84
Price / Book1.782.571.894.46
Net Income-$8.38M$696.05M$651.28M$175.69M
7 Day Performance-1.77%1.13%0.17%2.24%
1 Month Performance-1.48%9.04%5.24%9.52%
1 Year Performance20.23%-0.78%-2.42%2.35%

Shenandoah Telecommunications Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TDS
Telephone and Data Systems
2.5154 of 5 stars
$18.92
+0.7%
$26.33
+39.2%
+91.5%$2.14B$5.41B-23.959,300
IDT
IDT
0 of 5 stars
$28.88
-2.7%
N/A+10.9%$726.62M$1.24B18.281,890Upcoming Earnings
CNSL
Consolidated Communications
1.5457 of 5 stars
$4.22
-0.7%
$3.50
-17.1%
-7.9%$491.59M$1.19B-1.693,200Short Interest ↓
Positive News
MSEX
Middlesex Water
3.0948 of 5 stars
$63.79
-2.7%
$85.00
+33.2%
-30.9%$1.14B$162.43M34.67350Positive News
KEN
Kenon
0 of 5 stars
$22.27
-0.6%
N/A-40.9%$1.20B$573.96M-1.91288
NWN
Northwest Natural
3.0382 of 5 stars
$36.70
-0.1%
$46.75
+27.4%
-25.6%$1.35B$1.04B13.351,258Short Interest ↓
Positive News
HE
Hawaiian Electric Industries
1.3931 of 5 stars
$12.43
-0.5%
$11.67
-6.1%
-69.5%$1.37B$3.74B6.583,756Negative News
VEON
VEON
0 of 5 stars
$20.00
flat
N/A+33.3%$1.41B$3.76B0.0016,442Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
UTL
Unitil
1.6389 of 5 stars
$49.05
-0.8%
$51.00
+4.0%
-5.8%$789.71M$563.20M17.77530Short Interest ↑
CLNE
Clean Energy Fuels
1.9073 of 5 stars
$3.42
+0.3%
$9.86
+188.2%
-44.4%$760.50M$432.06M-8.14496Analyst Report
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:SHEN) was last updated on 11/29/2023 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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