SKM vs. TME, CHT, TEF, WBD, VOD, FWONK, FOXA, TU, FOX, and BCE
Should you be buying SK Telecom stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SK Telecom include Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Telefonica (TEF), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Vodafone Group (VOD), Liberty Media Corporation - Liberty Formula One Series C (FWONK), FOX (FOXA), TELUS (TU), FOX (FOX), and BCE (BCE). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
SK Telecom vs. Its Competitors
SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) and Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE:TME) are both communication companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Tencent Music Entertainment Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SK Telecom. SK Telecom is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tencent Music Entertainment Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Tencent Music Entertainment Group had 7 more articles in the media than SK Telecom. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Tencent Music Entertainment Group and 2 mentions for SK Telecom. Tencent Music Entertainment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat SK Telecom's score of 0.25 indicating that Tencent Music Entertainment Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
24.3% of Tencent Music Entertainment Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of SK Telecom shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SK Telecom pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Tencent Music Entertainment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. SK Telecom pays out 43.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tencent Music Entertainment Group pays out 20.2% 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.
Tencent Music Entertainment Group has a consensus target price of $16.60, suggesting a potential downside of 22.56%. Given Tencent Music Entertainment Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Tencent Music Entertainment Group is more favorable than SK Telecom.
Tencent Music Entertainment Group has a net margin of 32.73% compared to SK Telecom's net margin of 7.31%. SK Telecom's return on equity of 10.98% beat Tencent Music Entertainment Group's return on equity.
SK Telecom has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tencent Music Entertainment Group has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Tencent Music Entertainment Group beats SK Telecom on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SKM and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:SKM) was last updated on 7/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
