IDT vs. LUMN, ATNI, T, VZ, TEO, TDS, SHEN, ATEX, CXDO, and SURG
Should you be buying IDT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IDT include Lumen Technologies (LUMN), ATN International (ATNI), AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), Telecom Argentina (TEO), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Anterix (ATEX), Crexendo (CXDO), and SurgePays (SURG). These companies are all part of the "telephone communication, except radio" industry.
IDT vs.
Lumen Technologies (NYSE:LUMN) and IDT (NYSE:IDT) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Lumen Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $4.59, indicating a potential upside of 28.14%. Given Lumen Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lumen Technologies is more favorable than IDT.
Lumen Technologies has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDT has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lumen Technologies had 8 more articles in the media than IDT. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Lumen Technologies and 3 mentions for IDT. Lumen Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat IDT's score of 0.18 indicating that Lumen Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lumen Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 27.9%. IDT pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Lumen Technologies pays out -2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDT pays out 7.6% 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. Lumen Technologies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
IDT has a net margin of 6.10% compared to Lumen Technologies' net margin of -0.42%. IDT's return on equity of 22.18% beat Lumen Technologies' return on equity.
66.2% of Lumen Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.3% of IDT shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Lumen Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.3% of IDT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lumen Technologies received 400 more outperform votes than IDT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.44% of users gave IDT an outperform vote while only 58.76% of users gave Lumen Technologies an outperform vote.
IDT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lumen Technologies. Lumen Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IDT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lumen Technologies beats IDT on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:IDT) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
