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TEF vs. AMX, CHT, WBD, FWONK, FOXA, FOX, BCE, TU, VOD, and TME

Should you be buying Telefónica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Telefónica include América Móvil (AMX), Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Formula One Group (FWONK), FOX (FOXA), FOX (FOX), BCE (BCE), TELUS (TU), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), and Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.

Telefónica vs.

Telefónica (NYSE:TEF) and América Móvil (NYSE:AMX) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.

América Móvil has a consensus target price of $18.94, indicating a potential upside of 28.50%. Given América Móvil's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe América Móvil is more favorable than Telefónica.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Telefónica
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.80
América Móvil
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40

América Móvil has higher revenue and earnings than Telefónica. Telefónica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than América Móvil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Telefónica$43.99B0.56-$965.41M-$0.26-16.67
América Móvil$46.07B0.98$4.51B$0.6722.00

Telefónica has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, América Móvil has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Telefónica had 2 more articles in the media than América Móvil. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Telefónica and 6 mentions for América Móvil. Telefónica's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat América Móvil's score of -0.51 indicating that Telefónica is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Telefónica
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
América Móvil
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Negative

1.1% of Telefónica shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of América Móvil shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Telefónica shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of América Móvil shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Telefónica received 89 more outperform votes than América Móvil when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.70% of users gave América Móvil an outperform vote while only 57.39% of users gave Telefónica an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
TelefónicaOutperform Votes
598
57.39%
Underperform Votes
444
42.61%
América MóvilOutperform Votes
509
61.70%
Underperform Votes
316
38.30%

América Móvil has a net margin of 4.45% compared to Telefónica's net margin of -2.84%. Telefónica's return on equity of 10.10% beat América Móvil's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Telefónica-2.84% 10.10% 2.54%
América Móvil 4.45%8.61%2.23%

Telefónica pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. América Móvil pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Telefónica pays out -84.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. América Móvil pays out 35.8% 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. Telefónica is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

América Móvil beats Telefónica on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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TEF vs. The Competition

MetricTelefónicaTelephone communication, except radio IndustryUtilities SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$24.58B$23.51B$14.23B$20.26B
Dividend Yield5.40%7.99%4.69%3.67%
P/E Ratio-16.6714.3791.5244.90
Price / Sales0.565.1123.6216.18
Price / Cash13.238.7918.6820.34
Price / Book0.852.672.305.75
Net Income-$965.41M$910.22M$644.74M$1.00B
7 Day Performance6.12%1.08%-0.06%-0.88%
1 Month Performance9.75%3.84%1.62%3.73%
1 Year Performance12.02%4.39%6.69%15.34%

Telefónica Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TEF
Telefónica
0.9422 of 5 stars
$4.32
+0.5%
N/A+11.0%$24.50B$43.99B-16.62104,142
AMX
América Móvil
4.095 of 5 stars
$14.19
+1.2%
$18.94
+33.5%
-14.2%$43.52B$46.07B21.16176,083Earnings Report
News Coverage
CHT
Chunghwa Telecom
0.9203 of 5 stars
$38.49
-0.9%
N/A-0.7%$29.87B$7.16B25.8432,383Short Interest ↑
WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery
3.741 of 5 stars
$10.24
-2.0%
$11.76
+14.9%
+2.2%$25.13B$41.32B-2.2435,300
FWONK
Formula One Group
1.2593 of 5 stars
$95.67
0.0%
$98.00
+2.4%
+50.2%$23.79B$3.22B83.196,800Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
FOXA
FOX
3.1533 of 5 stars
$52.03
+1.7%
$48.25
-7.3%
+79.3%$23.78B$13.98B12.7310,200
FOX
FOX
4.0356 of 5 stars
$49.27
+1.4%
N/A+84.2%$22.50B$13.98B12.0510,600Short Interest ↓
BCE
BCE
2.1494 of 5 stars
$24.08
+1.2%
$45.00
+86.9%
-39.0%$21.96B$18.28B343.9345,132Earnings Report
Dividend Cut
Analyst Revision
TU
TELUS
2.6957 of 5 stars
$14.53
+0.2%
$26.00
+79.0%
-17.1%$21.79B$14.90B30.90106,400Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
VOD
Vodafone Group Public
3.2179 of 5 stars
$8.52
-0.3%
N/A+5.5%$21.62B$39.85B0.0093,000Short Interest ↑
TME
Tencent Music Entertainment Group
3.7111 of 5 stars
$11.84
-1.2%
$13.54
+14.4%
+28.8%$20.31B$27.84B21.925,185Positive News

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This page (NYSE:TEF) was last updated on 2/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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