AAF vs. ZEG, GAMA, HTWS, RMV, ITV, PSON, AUTO, KWS, FOUR, and ASCL
Should you be buying Airtel Africa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Airtel Africa include Zegona Communications (ZEG), Gamma Communications (GAMA), Helios Towers (HTWS), Rightmove (RMV), ITV (ITV), Pearson (PSON), Auto Trader Group (AUTO), Keywords Studios (KWS), 4imprint Group (FOUR), and Ascential (ASCL). These companies are all part of the "communication services" sector.
Airtel Africa (LON:AAF) and Zegona Communications (LON:ZEG) are both communication services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Zegona Communications has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Airtel Africa's net margin of -3.30%. Zegona Communications' return on equity of -2.61% beat Airtel Africa's return on equity.
Zegona Communications received 88 more outperform votes than Airtel Africa when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.19% of users gave Airtel Africa an outperform vote while only 68.94% of users gave Zegona Communications an outperform vote.
Airtel Africa currently has a consensus price target of GBX 127.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.11%. Zegona Communications has a consensus price target of GBX 450, suggesting a potential upside of 71.10%. Given Zegona Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Zegona Communications is more favorable than Airtel Africa.
Airtel Africa pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Zegona Communications pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Airtel Africa pays out -16,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Zegona Communications pays out -3,846.2% 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. Airtel Africa is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Zegona Communications has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Airtel Africa. Airtel Africa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zegona Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Airtel Africa and Airtel Africa both had 1 articles in the media. Airtel Africa's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Zegona Communications' score of 0.00 indicating that Airtel Africa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Airtel Africa has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zegona Communications has a beta of 2.67, meaning that its stock price is 167% more volatile than the S&P 500.
22.0% of Airtel Africa shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.6% of Zegona Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 73.1% of Airtel Africa shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 74.6% of Zegona Communications shares are held by company 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.
Summary
Zegona Communications beats Airtel Africa on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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