IDT vs. LUMN, CNSL, ATNI, VZ, T, TDS, SHEN, ATEX, CXDO, and SURG
Should you be buying IDT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IDT include Lumen Technologies (LUMN), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), ATN International (ATNI), Verizon Communications (VZ), AT&T (T), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Anterix (ATEX), Crexendo (CXDO), and SurgePays (SURG). These companies are all part of the "telephone communication, except radio" industry.
Lumen Technologies (NYSE:LUMN) and IDT (NYSE:IDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
IDT has a net margin of 3.08% compared to IDT's net margin of -76.21%. Lumen Technologies' return on equity of 20.18% beat IDT's return on equity.
IDT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lumen Technologies. Lumen Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IDT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
66.2% of Lumen Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.3% of IDT shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Lumen Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of IDT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lumen Technologies has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDT has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IDT had 2 more articles in the media than Lumen Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for IDT and 4 mentions for Lumen Technologies. IDT's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Lumen Technologies' score of 0.52 indicating that Lumen Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lumen Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $1.76, suggesting a potential upside of 36.63%. Given IDT's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Lumen Technologies is more favorable than IDT.
Lumen Technologies received 406 more outperform votes than IDT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.50% of users gave IDT an outperform vote while only 59.69% of users gave Lumen Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
IDT beats Lumen Technologies on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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