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$14.34 -0.08 (-0.55%)
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SPOK vs. SHEN, CCI, SBAC, USM, TDS, BB, SIDU, SYTA, TMUS, and CHT

Should you be buying Spok stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spok include Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Crown Castle (CCI), SBA Communications (SBAC), United States Cellular (USM), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), BlackBerry (BB), Sidus Space (SIDU), Siyata Mobile (SYTA), T-Mobile US (TMUS), and Chunghwa Telecom (CHT).

Spok vs.

Shenandoah Telecommunications (NASDAQ:SHEN) and Spok (NASDAQ:SPOK) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.

Shenandoah Telecommunications presently has a consensus price target of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 133.39%. Spok has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 39.47%. Given Shenandoah Telecommunications' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Shenandoah Telecommunications is more favorable than Spok.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Shenandoah Telecommunications
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Spok
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

62.0% of Shenandoah Telecommunications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.8% of Spok shares are held by institutional investors. 4.5% of Shenandoah Telecommunications shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of Spok shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Shenandoah Telecommunications has a net margin of 58.03% compared to Spok's net margin of 10.66%. Spok's return on equity of 9.20% beat Shenandoah Telecommunications' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Shenandoah Telecommunications58.03% -2.50% -1.40%
Spok 10.66%9.20%6.71%

In the previous week, Shenandoah Telecommunications had 13 more articles in the media than Spok. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Shenandoah Telecommunications and 8 mentions for Spok. Spok's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Shenandoah Telecommunications' score of 0.50 indicating that Spok is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Shenandoah Telecommunications
8 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Spok
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Shenandoah Telecommunications received 227 more outperform votes than Spok when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.39% of users gave Shenandoah Telecommunications an outperform vote while only 59.89% of users gave Spok an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Shenandoah TelecommunicationsOutperform Votes
436
67.39%
Underperform Votes
211
32.61%
SpokOutperform Votes
209
59.89%
Underperform Votes
140
40.11%

Shenandoah Telecommunications has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spok has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Shenandoah Telecommunications pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Spok pays an annual dividend of $1.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Shenandoah Telecommunications pays out 2.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spok pays out 168.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Shenandoah Telecommunications$328.06M1.86$8.04M$3.792.94
Spok$137.65M2.13$15.67M$0.7419.38

Summary

Shenandoah Telecommunications beats Spok on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SPOK vs. The Competition

MetricSpokRadiotelephone communication IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$292.81M$35.71B$23.05B$7.82B
Dividend Yield8.22%5.17%2.97%4.22%
P/E Ratio19.6416.0442.1818.48
Price / Sales2.131.582,090.05103.60
Price / Cash16.597.1834.7234.62
Price / Book1.721.846.134.25
Net Income$15.67M$2.08B$738.82M$248.23M
7 Day Performance-7.60%-0.53%1.31%0.89%
1 Month Performance-13.72%-0.58%1.63%3.53%
1 Year Performance-8.78%18.79%52,744.84%5.08%

Spok Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SPOK
Spok
3.887 of 5 stars
$14.34
-0.6%
$20.00
+39.5%
-7.2%$292.81M$137.65M19.64380Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
SHEN
Shenandoah Telecommunications
3.6654 of 5 stars
$12.81
-2.0%
$26.00
+103.0%
-13.1%$702.71M$328.06M3.38840Earnings Report
News Coverage
Gap Down
CCI
Crown Castle
3.8215 of 5 stars
$102.22
-1.3%
$109.88
+7.5%
+12.7%$44.51B$6.57B36.255,000Earnings Report
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
SBAC
SBA Communications
4.3572 of 5 stars
$225.55
-1.5%
$251.92
+11.7%
+30.8%$24.27B$2.68B35.581,830Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
USM
United States Cellular
2.4699 of 5 stars
$66.69
-2.9%
$86.33
+29.5%
+88.6%$5.67B$3.77B-185.244,900Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
TDS
Telephone and Data Systems
3.0868 of 5 stars
$35.09
-3.8%
$53.50
+52.5%
+139.7%$4.00B$4.96B-6.509,300Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
BB
BlackBerry
1.4594 of 5 stars
$3.09
-2.5%
$4.12
+33.3%
+21.6%$1.84B$534.90M-14.052,647Gap Up
SIDU
Sidus Space
0.6811 of 5 stars
$1.40
flat
N/A-53.0%$25.63M$4.67M-0.3840Short Interest ↓
Gap Down
SYTA
Siyata Mobile
0.6328 of 5 stars
$1.17
-7.1%
N/A-99.8%$94,000.00$11.63M0.0030News Coverage
TMUS
T-Mobile US
4.641 of 5 stars
$253.48
-3.3%
$256.80
+1.3%
+50.4%$289.41B$81.40B26.2171,000Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
CHT
Chunghwa Telecom
0.3987 of 5 stars
$39.54
-1.1%
N/A+7.3%$30.67B$228.58B26.5420,300Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑

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This page (NASDAQ:SPOK) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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