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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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