Cable One (CABO) Competitors

VEON (NASDAQ:VEON) and Cable One (NYSE:CABO) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.

Is VEON or CABO more profitable?

Cable One has a net margin of 15.86% compared to VEON's net margin of -81.71%. VEON's return on equity of 36.48% beat Cable One's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
VEON	-81.71%	36.48%	5.49%
Cable One	15.86%	10.98%	3.04%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor VEON or CABO?

VEON received 109 more outperform votes than Cable One when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.36% of users gave Cable One an outperform vote while only 57.93% of users gave VEON an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
VEON	Outperform Votes 409 57.93%	Underperform Votes 297 42.07%
Cable One	Outperform Votes 300 60.36%	Underperform Votes 197 39.64%

Do analysts recommend VEON or CABO?

VEON currently has a consensus target price of $60.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.56%. Cable One has a consensus target price of $370.67, suggesting a potential upside of 149.06%. Given Cable One's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cable One is more favorable than VEON.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
VEON	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Cable One	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.75

Is VEON or CABO a better dividend stock?

VEON pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Cable One pays an annual dividend of $11.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. VEON pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cable One pays out -470.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Cable One is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, VEON or CABO?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
VEON	$4.00B	1.02	-$2.53B	$6.34	8.72
Cable One	$1.56B	0.54	$224.62M	-$2.51	-59.29

Does the media prefer VEON or CABO?

In the previous week, VEON had 4 more articles in the media than Cable One. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for VEON and 9 mentions for Cable One. VEON's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Cable One's score of 0.39 indicating that VEON is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
VEON	2 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Cable One	4 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has more volatility & risk, VEON or CABO?

VEON has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cable One has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in VEON or CABO?

21.3% of VEON shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Cable One shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Cable One shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

VEON beats Cable One on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.