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TEF vs TMUS

Side-by-side comparison of Telefonica SA (TEF) and T-Mobile US Inc. (TMUS): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both TEF and TMUS operate in Telecommunications Equipment (Telecommunications), so they compete in similar markets.
  • TMUS is the larger of the two at $193.10B, about 7.3x TEF ($26.51B).
  • Over the past year, TEF is down 27.9% and TMUS is down 24.7% - TMUS leads by 3.2 points.
  • TMUS has hit the wire 9 times in the past 4 weeks while TEF has been quiet.
  • TMUS has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 13 for TEF).
PerformanceTEF-27.88%TMUS-18.58%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-01-16
MetricTEFTMUS
Company
Telefonica SA
T-Mobile US Inc.
Price
$3.81-0.91%
$179.18+0.46%
Market cap
$26.51B
$193.10B
1M return
-8.29%
-7.44%
1Y return
-27.88%
-24.71%
Industry
Telecommunications Equipment
Telecommunications Equipment
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
1988
News (4w)
0
9
Recent ratings
13
25
TEF

Telefonica SA

Telefónica, S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunications services in Europe and Latin America. The company's mobile and related services and products comprise mobile voice, value added, mobile data, Internet, wholesale, corporate, roaming, fixed wireless, trunking, and paging services. Its fixed telecommunication services include PSTN lines; ISDN accesses; public telephone services; local, domestic, and international long-distance and fixed-to-mobile communications; corporate communications; supplementary value-added services; video telephony; intelligent network; and telephony information services. The company also leases and sells handset equipment; and provides Internet and broadband multimedia services comprising Internet service provider, portal and network, retail and wholesale broadband access, narrowband switched access, high-speed Internet through fibre to the home, and voice over Internet protocol services. In addition, it offers leased lines; virtual private network; fibre optics; hosting and application; outsourcing and consultancy; desktop; and system integration and professional services. Further, the company offers wholesale services for telecommunication operators, including domestic interconnection; international wholesale; leased lines for other operators; and local loop leasing under the unbundled local loop regulation framework, as well as bit stream services, wholesale line rental accesses, and leased ducts for other operators' fiber deployment. Additionally, it provides video/TV services; smart connectivity and services, and consumer IoT products; financial and other payment, security, cloud computing, advertising, big data, and digital telco experience services; virtual assistants; digital home platforms; and Movistar Home devices. The company serves 337 million customers. Telefónica, S.A. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

TMUS

T-Mobile US Inc.

T-Mobile US, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides mobile communications services in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands. The company offers voice, messaging, and data services to 102.1 million customers in the postpaid, prepaid, and wholesale markets. It also provides wireless devices, including smartphones, wearables, and tablets and other mobile communication devices, as well as wireless devices and accessories. In addition, the company offers services, devices, and accessories under the T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile brands through its owned and operated retail stores, app and customer care channels, and its websites. It also sells its devices to dealers and other third party distributors for resale through independent third-party retail outlets and various third-party websites. As of December 31, 2020, it operated approximately 108,000 macro towers and 69,000 small cell/distributed antenna system sites; and approximately 3,400 T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile retail locations, including stores and kiosks. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.