Lumen Technologies (LUMN) Competitors

IDT (NYSE:IDT) and Lumen Technologies (NYSE:LUMN) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.

Do analysts rate IDT or LUMN?

Lumen Technologies has a consensus price target of $4.78, indicating a potential downside of 4.28%. Given Lumen Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lumen Technologies is more favorable than IDT.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
IDT	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Lumen Technologies	2 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.78

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, IDT or LUMN?

IDT has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
IDT	$1.21B	1.03	$64.45M	$2.92	16.84
Lumen Technologies	$13.11B	0.39	-$55M	-$0.05	-99.88

Is IDT or LUMN more profitable?

IDT has a net margin of 6.10% compared to Lumen Technologies' net margin of -0.42%. IDT's return on equity of 22.18% beat Lumen Technologies' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
IDT	6.10%	22.18%	10.03%
Lumen Technologies	-0.42%	-46.17%	-0.61%

Which has more volatility & risk, IDT or LUMN?

IDT has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lumen Technologies has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor IDT or LUMN?

Lumen Technologies received 401 more outperform votes than IDT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.18% of users gave IDT an outperform vote while only 58.72% of users gave Lumen Technologies an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
IDT	Outperform Votes 175 63.18%	Underperform Votes 102 36.82%
Lumen Technologies	Outperform Votes 576 58.72%	Underperform Votes 405 41.28%

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of IDT or LUMN?

59.3% of IDT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.2% of Lumen Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 25.3% of IDT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Lumen Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer IDT or LUMN?

In the previous week, Lumen Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than IDT. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Lumen Technologies and 3 mentions for IDT. Lumen Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat IDT's score of 0.62 indicating that Lumen Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
IDT	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Lumen Technologies	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

IDT beats Lumen Technologies on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.