ATN International (ATNI) Competitors

ATN International (NASDAQ:ATNI) and IDT (NYSE:IDT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in ATNI or IDT?

65.5% of ATN International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.3% of IDT shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of ATN International shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.3% of IDT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts rate ATNI or IDT?

ATN International presently has a consensus target price of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.41%. Given ATN International's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ATN International is more favorable than IDT.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ATN International	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.50
IDT	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ATNI or IDT?

ATN International received 122 more outperform votes than IDT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.44% of users gave IDT an outperform vote while only 59.56% of users gave ATN International an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
ATN International	Outperform Votes 299 59.56%	Underperform Votes 203 40.44%
IDT	Outperform Votes 177 63.44%	Underperform Votes 102 36.56%

Which has more risk and volatility, ATNI or IDT?

ATN International has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDT has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is ATNI or IDT a better dividend stock?

ATN International pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. IDT pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. ATN International pays out -45.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDT pays out 7.6% 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. ATN International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, ATNI or IDT?

IDT has higher revenue and earnings than ATN International. ATN International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IDT, 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
ATN International	$729.08M	0.45	-$14.54M	-$2.12	-10.02
IDT	$1.22B	1.07	$64.45M	$3.15	16.44

Does the media prefer ATNI or IDT?

In the previous week, IDT had 1 more articles in the media than ATN International. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for IDT and 3 mentions for ATN International. IDT's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat ATN International's score of 0.83 indicating that IDT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
ATN International	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
IDT	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is ATNI or IDT more profitable?

IDT has a net margin of 6.10% compared to ATN International's net margin of -4.79%. IDT's return on equity of 22.18% beat ATN International's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ATN International	-4.79%	0.52%	0.18%
IDT	6.10%	22.18%	10.03%

Summary

IDT beats ATN International on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.