AAF vs. BT.A, ZEG, ISAT, GAMA, TALK, HTWS, KCOM, MANX, MAI, and BBB
Should you be buying Airtel Africa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Airtel Africa include BT Group (BT.A), Zegona Communications (ZEG), Inmarsat (ISAT), Gamma Communications (GAMA), TalkTalk Telecom Group (TALK), Helios Towers (HTWS), KCOM Group (KCOM), Manx Telecom (MANX), Maintel (MAI), and Bigblu Broadband (BBB). These companies are all part of the "telecom services" industry.
Airtel Africa vs.
BT Group (LON:BT.A) and Airtel Africa (LON:AAF) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
In the previous week, BT Group and BT Group both had 3 articles in the media. Airtel Africa's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat BT Group's score of -0.03 indicating that Airtel Africa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BT Group has a net margin of 4.11% compared to Airtel Africa's net margin of 0.25%. BT Group's return on equity of 6.33% beat Airtel Africa's return on equity.
BT Group has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Airtel Africa has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
27.7% of BT Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.2% of Airtel Africa shares are owned by institutional investors. 43.9% of BT Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 72.6% of Airtel Africa shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BT Group has higher revenue and earnings than Airtel Africa. Airtel Africa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BT Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BT Group received 1483 more outperform votes than Airtel Africa when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 86.21% of users gave Airtel Africa an outperform vote while only 72.64% of users gave BT Group an outperform vote.
BT Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Airtel Africa pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. BT Group pays out 8,888.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Airtel Africa pays out -16,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Airtel Africa has a consensus price target of GBX 144.33, suggesting a potential upside of 14.64%. Given Airtel Africa's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Airtel Africa is more favorable than BT Group.
Summary
Airtel Africa beats BT Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:AAF) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
