BCE (BCE) Competitors

BCE (NYSE:BCE) and América Móvil (NYSE:AMX) are both large-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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer BCE or AMX?

América Móvil received 98 more outperform votes than BCE when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.63% of users gave América Móvil an outperform vote while only 55.97% of users gave BCE an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
BCE	Outperform Votes 408 55.97%	Underperform Votes 321 44.03%
América Móvil	Outperform Votes 506 61.63%	Underperform Votes 315 38.37%

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of BCE or AMX?

41.5% of BCE shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of América Móvil shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of BCE shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of América Móvil shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is BCE or AMX a better dividend stock?

BCE pays an annual dividend of $2.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.5%. América Móvil pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. BCE pays out 4,214.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. América Móvil pays out 34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Does the media favor BCE or AMX?

In the previous week, BCE had 17 more articles in the media than América Móvil. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for BCE and 4 mentions for América Móvil. América Móvil's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat BCE's score of 0.56 indicating that América Móvil is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
BCE	8 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
América Móvil	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts prefer BCE or AMX?

BCE presently has a consensus target price of $45.00, indicating a potential upside of 90.72%. América Móvil has a consensus target price of $19.48, indicating a potential upside of 30.59%. Given BCE's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe BCE is more favorable than América Móvil.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BCE	1 Sell rating(s)	9 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.17
América Móvil	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.40

Which has more risk & volatility, BCE or AMX?

BCE has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, América Móvil has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, BCE or AMX?

América Móvil has higher revenue and earnings than BCE. América Móvil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BCE, 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
BCE	$24.46B	0.88	$1.68B	$0.07	337.07
América Móvil	$832.99B	0.05	$4.51B	$0.67	22.27

Is BCE or AMX more profitable?

América Móvil has a net margin of 4.45% compared to BCE's net margin of 0.76%. BCE's return on equity of 17.58% beat América Móvil's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BCE	0.76%	17.58%	3.89%
América Móvil	4.45%	8.61%	2.23%

Summary

América Móvil beats BCE on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.