TEF vs. AMX, CHT, FOXA, WBD, FWONK, FOX, TME, TU, BCE, and VOD
Should you be buying Telefónica stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Telefónica include América Móvil (AMX), Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), FOX (FOXA), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Formula One Group (FWONK), FOX (FOX), Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), TELUS (TU), BCE (BCE), and Vodafone Group Public (VOD). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
Telefónica vs.
América Móvil (NYSE:AMX) and Telefónica (NYSE:TEF) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
América Móvil has higher revenue and earnings than Telefónica. Telefónica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than América Móvil, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
América Móvil has a net margin of 3.25% compared to Telefónica's net margin of -2.84%. Telefónica's return on equity of 10.10% beat América Móvil's return on equity.
América Móvil presently has a consensus price target of $17.15, suggesting a potential upside of 16.79%. Given América Móvil's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe América Móvil is more favorable than Telefónica.
6.3% of América Móvil shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.1% of Telefónica shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of América Móvil shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Telefónica shares are held by company 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.
América Móvil pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Telefónica pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. América Móvil pays out 49.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Telefónica pays out -84.6% 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. Telefónica is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
América Móvil has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telefónica has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, América Móvil had 3 more articles in the media than Telefónica. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for América Móvil and 4 mentions for Telefónica. Telefónica's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat América Móvil's score of 0.17 indicating that Telefónica is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Telefónica received 87 more outperform votes than América Móvil when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.71% of users gave América Móvil an outperform vote while only 57.39% of users gave Telefónica an outperform vote.
Summary
América Móvil beats Telefónica on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TEF) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
