IDT vs. CNSL, SHEN, TDS, MSEX, UTL, EDN, HE, KEN, SPH, and CLNE
Should you be buying IDT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IDT include Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), Middlesex Water (MSEX), Unitil (UTL), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Kenon (KEN), Suburban Propane Partners (SPH), and Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Consolidated Communications (NASDAQ:CNSL) and IDT (NYSE:IDT) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk and community ranking.
Consolidated Communications pays an annual dividend of $1.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 35.7%. IDT pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Consolidated Communications pays out -59.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDT pays out 13.8% 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. Consolidated Communications is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
IDT has higher revenue and earnings than Consolidated Communications. Consolidated Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IDT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IDT has a net margin of 3.08% compared to IDT's net margin of -22.53%. Consolidated Communications' return on equity of 20.18% beat IDT's return on equity.
Consolidated Communications has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDT has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
80.0% of Consolidated Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.3% of IDT shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Consolidated Communications shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of IDT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Consolidated Communications had 1 more articles in the media than IDT. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Consolidated Communications and 4 mentions for IDT. Consolidated Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat IDT's score of -0.19 indicating that IDT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Consolidated Communications received 132 more outperform votes than IDT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.50% of users gave IDT an outperform vote while only 52.89% of users gave Consolidated Communications an outperform vote.
Summary
IDT beats Consolidated Communications on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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