TELUS (NYSE:TU) & m-Wise (OTCMKTS:MWIS) Head-To-Head Review

TELUS (NYSE:TU) and m-Wise (OTCMKTS:MWIS) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, valuation and risk.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

49.4% of TELUS shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of TELUS shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares TELUS and m-Wise’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TELUS	$14.90 billion	1.60	$623.01 million	$0.39	41.26
m-Wise	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

TELUS has higher revenue and earnings than m-Wise.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for TELUS and m-Wise, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TELUS	0	3	1	0	2.25
m-Wise	0	0	0	0	N/A

TELUS currently has a consensus price target of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 80.24%. Given TELUS’s higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe TELUS is more favorable than m-Wise.

Profitability

This table compares TELUS and m-Wise’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TELUS	3.87%	8.50%	2.58%
m-Wise	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

TELUS beats m-Wise on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About TELUS

TELUS Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides a range of telecommunications and information technology products and services in Canada. It operates through Technology Solutions and Digitally-Led Customer Experiences segments. The Technology Solutions segment offers a range of telecommunications products and services; network services; healthcare services; mobile technologies equipment; data services, such as internet protocol; television; hosting, managed information technology, and cloud-based services; software, data management, and data analytics-driven smart food-chain and consumer goods technologies; home and business security; healthcare software and technology solutions; and voice and other telecommunications services, as well as mobile and fixed voice and data telecommunications services and products. The Digitally-Led Customer Experiences segment provides digital customer experience and digital-enablement transformation solutions, including artificial intelligence and content management solutions. The company was formerly known as TELUS Communications Inc. and changed its name to TELUS Corporation in February 2005. TELUS Corporation was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

About m-Wise

m-Wise, Inc. engages in the manufacture, development, and marketing of hardware-based wireless application platform. The company was founded by Shay Ben Asulin and Mordechai Broudo in February 2000 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.