IDT vs. CNSL, SHEN, TDS, GNE, CLNE, UTL, EDN, CWCO, YORW, and ARIS
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), Genie Energy (GNE), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), Unitil (UTL), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), Consolidated Water (CWCO), York Water (YORW), and Aris Water Solutions (ARIS). 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 better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings and risk.
80.0% of Consolidated Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of IDT shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Consolidated Communications shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of IDT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Consolidated Communications had 2 more articles in the media than IDT. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Consolidated Communications and 2 mentions for IDT. IDT's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Consolidated Communications' score of 0.31 indicating that Consolidated Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Consolidated Communications has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDT has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Consolidated Communications presently has a consensus target price of $3.50, indicating a potential downside of 18.79%. Given IDT's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Consolidated Communications is more favorable than IDT.
IDT has a net margin of 3.27% compared to IDT's net margin of -21.04%. Consolidated Communications' return on equity of 22.88% beat IDT's return on equity.
Consolidated Communications has higher earnings, but lower revenue than IDT. 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.
Consolidated Communications received 133 more outperform votes than IDT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.36% of users gave IDT an outperform vote while only 54.71% of users gave Consolidated Communications an outperform vote.
Summary
IDT beats Consolidated Communications on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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