CHT vs. TU, BCE, XEL, ED, PEG, EIX, PCG, WEC, TEF, and VST
Should you be buying Chunghwa Telecom stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chunghwa Telecom include TELUS (TU), BCE (BCE), Xcel Energy (XEL), Consolidated Edison (ED), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Edison International (EIX), PG&E (PCG), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Telefónica (TEF), and Vistra (VST). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE:CHT) and TELUS (NYSE:TU) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and risk.
Chunghwa Telecom has a net margin of 16.57% compared to TELUS's net margin of 4.18%. Chunghwa Telecom's return on equity of 9.38% beat TELUS's return on equity.
TELUS has a consensus price target of $27.31, suggesting a potential upside of 69.33%. Given TELUS's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TELUS is more favorable than Chunghwa Telecom.
Chunghwa Telecom has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TELUS has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TELUS received 147 more outperform votes than Chunghwa Telecom when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.49% of users gave Chunghwa Telecom an outperform vote while only 60.48% of users gave TELUS an outperform vote.
In the previous week, TELUS had 5 more articles in the media than Chunghwa Telecom. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for TELUS and 1 mentions for Chunghwa Telecom. Chunghwa Telecom's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat TELUS's score of -0.01 indicating that Chunghwa Telecom is being referred to more favorably in the media.
2.1% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.4% of TELUS shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of TELUS shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Chunghwa Telecom has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TELUS. Chunghwa Telecom is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TELUS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chunghwa Telecom pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. TELUS pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Chunghwa Telecom pays out 75.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. TELUS pays out 258.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Chunghwa Telecom beats TELUS on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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