MAI vs. BBB, ORNT, TOOP, SAT, TPOP, VOD, BT.A, AAF, ZEG, and ISAT
Should you be buying Maintel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maintel include Bigblu Broadband (BBB), Orient Telecoms (ORNT), Toople (TOOP), 21512 (SAT.L) (SAT), People's Operator (TPOP), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), BT Group (BT.A), Airtel Africa (AAF), Zegona Communications (ZEG), and Inmarsat (ISAT). These companies are all part of the "telecom services" industry.
Maintel vs.
Maintel (LON:MAI) and Bigblu Broadband (LON:BBB) are both small-cap communication services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
In the previous week, Maintel's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Bigblu Broadband'saverage media sentiment score.
Maintel has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bigblu Broadband has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
30.5% of Maintel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.1% of Bigblu Broadband shares are held by institutional investors. 62.9% of Maintel shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.3% of Bigblu Broadband shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Maintel received 51 more outperform votes than Bigblu Broadband when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.65% of users gave Bigblu Broadband an outperform vote while only 53.01% of users gave Maintel an outperform vote.
Bigblu Broadband has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maintel. Maintel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bigblu Broadband, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Maintel has a net margin of -2.52% compared to Bigblu Broadband's net margin of -19.83%. Maintel's return on equity of -16.30% beat Bigblu Broadband's return on equity.
Maintel pays an annual dividend of GBX 35 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Bigblu Broadband pays an annual dividend of GBX 90 per share and has a dividend yield of 300.6%. Maintel pays out -19,444.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bigblu Broadband pays out -300,000.0% 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. Bigblu Broadband is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Bigblu Broadband beats Maintel on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON 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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This page (LON:MAI) was last updated on 1/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
