SSE (SSE) Competitors

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 community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

Which has more risk & volatility, TEP or SSE?

Telecom Plus has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SSE has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of TEP or SSE?

67.3% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.5% of SSE shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of SSE 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.

Is TEP or SSE a better dividend stock?

Telecom Plus pays an annual dividend of GBX 83 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. SSE pays an annual dividend of GBX 60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Telecom Plus pays out 93.5% 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 38.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Which has better earnings and valuation, TEP or SSE?

SSE has higher revenue and earnings than Telecom Plus. SSE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telecom Plus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Telecom Plus	£2.03B	0.72	£70.86M	£88.79	20.63
SSE	£10.47B	1.69	£1.71B	£156.52	10.33

Does the media favor TEP or SSE?

In the previous week, Telecom Plus and Telecom Plus both had 1 articles in the media. Telecom Plus' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat SSE's score of 0.19 indicating that Telecom Plus is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Telecom Plus	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
SSE	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do analysts rate TEP or SSE?

SSE has a consensus target price of GBX 2,050, indicating a potential upside of 26.74%. Given SSE's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SSE is more favorable than Telecom Plus.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Telecom Plus	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
SSE	1 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in TEP or SSE?

SSE received 240 more outperform votes than Telecom Plus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.95% of users gave Telecom Plus an outperform vote while only 56.87% of users gave SSE an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Telecom Plus	Outperform Votes 298 70.95%	Underperform Votes 122 29.05%
SSE	Outperform Votes 538 56.87%	Underperform Votes 408 43.13%

Is TEP or SSE more profitable?

SSE has a net margin of 16.36% compared to Telecom Plus' net margin of 3.48%. Telecom Plus' return on equity of 31.35% beat SSE's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Telecom Plus	3.48%	31.35%	9.20%
SSE	16.36%	17.83%	6.57%

Summary

SSE beats Telecom Plus on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.