Vodafone Group (NASDAQ:VOD) & SurgePays (NASDAQ:SURG) Financial Review

SurgePays (NASDAQ:SURG) and Vodafone Group (NASDAQ:VOD) are both communication services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for SurgePays and Vodafone Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SurgePays	2	0	1	0	1.67
Vodafone Group	3	4	2	0	1.89

SurgePays currently has a consensus target price of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1,466.70%. Vodafone Group has a consensus target price of $10.57, suggesting a potential downside of 30.99%. Given SurgePays’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SurgePays is more favorable than Vodafone Group.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares SurgePays and Vodafone Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SurgePays	$56.96 million	0.10	-$36.07 million	($1.94)	-0.12
Vodafone Group	$40.46 billion	0.87	-$460.44 million	N/A	N/A

SurgePays has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Vodafone Group.

Profitability

This table compares SurgePays and Vodafone Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SurgePays	-64.91%	N/A	-310.16%
Vodafone Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Risk and Volatility

SurgePays has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vodafone Group has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

6.9% of SurgePays shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.8% of Vodafone Group shares are held by institutional investors. 29.1% of SurgePays shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Vodafone Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Vodafone Group beats SurgePays on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SurgePays

SurgePays, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a financial technology and telecom company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Mobile Virtual Network Operators, Comprehensive Platform Services, and Lead Generation. The company offers subsidized and non-subsidized mobile virtual network operators for internet connectivity through mobile broadband services to consumers; ACH banking relationships and fintech transactions platform to convenience stores; wireless top-up transactions and wireless product aggregation; and lead generation and case management solutions primarily to law firms in the mass tort industry, as well as call center activities. SurgePays, Inc. is headquartered in Bartlett, Tennessee.

About Vodafone Group

Vodafone Group Public Limited Company provides telecommunication services in Europe and internationally. It offers mobile connectivity services comprising end-to-end services for mobile voice and data, messaging, device management, BYOx, and telecoms management, as well as professional and consulting services; and fixed line connectivity, such as fixed voice and data, broadband, software-defined networks, managed WAN, LAN, ethernet, and satellite; and financial services, as well as business and merchant services. The company also provides consumer Internet of Things (IoT) propositions, as well as security and insurance products; mobile services; logistics, fleet management, and smart metering services; WiFi; digital services comprising mobile application development, multi-access edge computing, worker insights, AI assistant, drone detection, visual inspection, and mixed reality, as well as Vodafone Analytics platform; and traditional IT hosting services, including colocation, managed hosting, security, hosting infrastructure, and flexible computing for government. In addition, it offers integrated business communication services, as well as fixed mobile convergence services; and carrier services, as well as IoT devices comprising managed tablets and integrated terminals. Further, it offers M-Pesa, an African mobile money platform to make payments and provide financial services; Vodafone Business multi-cloud platform; and productivity solutions, as well as operates digital cloud-based television platforms. It serves private and public sector customers in the manufacturing, retail, automotive, banking finance, healthcare, smart cities and public, agriculture, transport and logistics, and energy and utilities management industries. It offers its products and services through digital and physical channels. Vodafone Group Public Limited Company has a strategic partnership with Open Fiber. The company was incorporated in 1984 and is based in Newbury, the United Kingdom.