Yahoo Finance How Does Wall Street View T-Mobile?
How Has T-Mobile Stacked Up against Its Peers Recently?
Analysts’ recommendations for T-Mobile
In the previous part of this series, we looked at T-Mobile’s (TMUS) scale among the largest four US mobile players, including Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T), and Sprint (S).
We learned that the current year’s EV-to-EBITDA (enterprise value to earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization) metric for T-Mobile was lower than Verizon’s and AT&T’s but higher than Sprint’s as of May 23, 2016. Now, let’s look at some market-centric metrics and views for T-Mobile.
As we can observe in the above chart, ~74.2% of the 31 analysts following T-Mobile’s stock have recommended “buys” as of May 23, 2016. Meanwhile, ~22.6% of recommendations on the stock are “holds,” and the remaining ~3.2% of recommendations are “sells.”
The median target price for TMUS given by Wall Street analysts was $47 on May 23, 2016. T-Mobile’s closing price was $41.64 on the same day.
T-Mobile’s price performance
In the past one-month and one-year periods, T-Mobile’s price performance has been in the green. The stock’s price rises during the one-month and one-year periods were ~3.5% and ~13.5%, respectively, as of May 23.
For diversified exposure to T-Mobile, you may want to consider investing in the iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF (IYZ). TMUS made up ~5.3% of the ETF at the end of April 2016.
Note that IYZ had ~29.2% exposure to the top four US wireless carriers on the same date.
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