PHI vs. VIV, TIMB, KT, FYBR, TEO, TDS, LUMN, IDT, SHEN, and ATEX
Should you be buying PLDT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PLDT include Telefônica Brasil (VIV), TIM (TIMB), KT (KT), Frontier Communications Parent (FYBR), Telecom Argentina (TEO), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), Lumen Technologies (LUMN), IDT (IDT), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), and Anterix (ATEX). These companies are all part of the "telephone communication, except radio" industry.
Telefônica Brasil (NYSE:VIV) and PLDT (NYSE:PHI) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and profitability.
PLDT has a net margin of 12.86% compared to PLDT's net margin of 9.63%. Telefônica Brasil's return on equity of 21.34% beat PLDT's return on equity.
Telefônica Brasil pays an annual dividend of $0.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. PLDT pays an annual dividend of $1.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Telefônica Brasil pays out 46.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PLDT pays out 39.7% 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. PLDT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
PLDT received 5 more outperform votes than Telefônica Brasil when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.13% of users gave PLDT an outperform vote while only 59.90% of users gave Telefônica Brasil an outperform vote.
Telefônica Brasil presently has a consensus target price of $11.35, suggesting a potential upside of 30.91%. Given PLDT's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Telefônica Brasil is more favorable than PLDT.
5.2% of Telefônica Brasil shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.3% of PLDT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of PLDT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Telefônica Brasil has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PLDT has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Telefônica Brasil has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PLDT. PLDT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telefônica Brasil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Telefônica Brasil had 2 more articles in the media than PLDT. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Telefônica Brasil and 1 mentions for PLDT. Telefônica Brasil's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat PLDT's score of -0.20 indicating that PLDT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
PLDT beats Telefônica Brasil on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PHI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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