SSE vs. TEP, YU, FLOW, NG.L, NG, SVT, CNA, UU, DRX, and PNN
Should you be buying SSE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SSE include Telecom Plus (TEP), Yü Group (YU), Flowgroup (FLOW), National Grid (NG.L), National Grid (NG), Severn Trent (SVT), Centrica (CNA), United Utilities Group (UU), Drax Group (DRX), and Pennon Group (PNN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Telecom Plus (LON:TEP) and SSE (LON:SSE) are both utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and earnings.
Telecom Plus has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SSE has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
63.7% of Telecom Plus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.7% of SSE shares are held by institutional investors. 11.5% of Telecom Plus shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of SSE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
SSE has a consensus price target of GBX 2,043.75, suggesting a potential upside of 14.21%. Given Telecom Plus' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SSE is more favorable than Telecom Plus.
SSE has a net margin of 4.96% compared to SSE's net margin of 2.42%. SSE's return on equity of 31.43% beat Telecom Plus' return on equity.
SSE received 239 more outperform votes than Telecom Plus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.95% of users gave Telecom Plus an outperform vote while only 56.89% of users gave SSE an outperform vote.
Telecom Plus pays an annual dividend of GBX 82 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. SSE pays an annual dividend of GBX 88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Telecom Plus pays out 9,647.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SSE pays out 16,603.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
SSE has higher revenue and earnings than Telecom Plus. Telecom Plus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SSE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Telecom Plus and Telecom Plus both had 1 articles in the media. Telecom Plus' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat SSE's score of 0.20 indicating that SSE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
SSE beats Telecom Plus on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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