NOK vs. MSI, ERIC, UI, VSAT, HLIT, PL, AVNW, COMM, GILT, and CRNT
Should you be buying Nokia Oyj stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nokia Oyj include Motorola Solutions (MSI), Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (ERIC), Ubiquiti (UI), Viasat (VSAT), Harmonic (HLIT), Planet Labs PBC (PL), Aviat Networks (AVNW), CommScope (COMM), Gilat Satellite Networks (GILT), and Ceragon Networks (CRNT). These companies are all part of the "radio & t.v. communications equipment" industry.
Nokia Oyj (NYSE:NOK) and Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
Nokia Oyj pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Motorola Solutions pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Nokia Oyj pays out 56.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Motorola Solutions pays out 48.5% 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.
Motorola Solutions has a net margin of 13.64% compared to Nokia Oyj's net margin of 1.95%. Motorola Solutions' return on equity of 398.16% beat Nokia Oyj's return on equity.
5.3% of Nokia Oyj shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.2% of Motorola Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Motorola Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Nokia Oyj has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Motorola Solutions has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Motorola Solutions has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Nokia Oyj. Nokia Oyj is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Motorola Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Nokia Oyj had 19 more articles in the media than Motorola Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Nokia Oyj and 11 mentions for Motorola Solutions. Motorola Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Nokia Oyj's score of 0.21 indicating that Motorola Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nokia Oyj received 195 more outperform votes than Motorola Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.44% of users gave Motorola Solutions an outperform vote while only 60.88% of users gave Nokia Oyj an outperform vote.
Nokia Oyj currently has a consensus price target of $3.89, suggesting a potential upside of 1.08%. Motorola Solutions has a consensus price target of $374.57, suggesting a potential downside of 4.84%. Given Nokia Oyj's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Nokia Oyj is more favorable than Motorola Solutions.
Summary
Motorola Solutions beats Nokia Oyj on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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