Telephone companies have historically been stable equity income investments.  Internet and wireless technology has changed the landscape and “telephone” became “telecom”.  These days there are telecom investment opportunities around the globe with securities traded in US markets.

Our database has 276 companies classified as “Communications Services” (telecom).  We filtered for possible telecom investment prospects using these minimal criteria:

Market-Cap > $1 billion EV/EBITDA < 10 Yield > 0% Payout Ratio < 100% Operating Margin 5 Yr Av > 0% Sales Growth 3 Yr > 0% EPS Growth 3 Yr > 0% Dividend Growth 3 Yr > 0% PEG 5 Yr Trailing < 2

From that filter, 9 telecoms emerged as worthy of further research and consideration (including validation of the information in our database).

Those companies are (ranked by descending market-cap):

China Mobil (CHL) Telefonica (TEF) Verizon (VZ) Rogers Communications (RCI) Turkcell (TKC) TELUS (TU) Portugal Telecom (PT) Telekom Austria (TKAGY) Magyar Telecom (MTA)

It is obvious merely by the names of the companies that they represent vastly different circumstances.  Frankly, we’d

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