TEP vs. YU, FLOW, SSE, UKW, DRX, PNN, GLO, GRP, JEL, and GOOD
Should you be buying Telecom Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Telecom Plus include Yü Group (YU), Flowgroup (FLOW), SSE (SSE), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), Drax Group (DRX), Pennon Group (PNN), ContourGlobal (GLO), Greencoat Renewables (GRP), Jersey Electricity (JEL), and Good Energy Group (GOOD). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Telecom Plus vs.
Telecom Plus (LON:TEP) and Yü Group (LON:YU) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Telecom Plus has higher revenue and earnings than Yü Group. Yü Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telecom Plus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Telecom Plus pays an annual dividend of GBX 83 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Yü Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 56 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. 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. Yü Group pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Telecom Plus has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yü Group has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
67.3% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.4% of Yü Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of Telecom Plus shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 72.4% of Yü Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Telecom Plus had 2 more articles in the media than Yü Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Telecom Plus and 0 mentions for Yü Group. Yü Group's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Telecom Plus' score of 0.55 indicating that Yü Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Yü Group has a net margin of 6.62% compared to Telecom Plus' net margin of 3.48%. Yü Group's return on equity of 77.26% beat Telecom Plus' return on equity.
Telecom Plus received 297 more outperform votes than Yü Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Yü Group an outperform vote while only 70.95% of users gave Telecom Plus an outperform vote.
Summary
Yü Group beats Telecom Plus on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:TEP) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
