AT&T Has The Most Disappointing Big Company Stock This Year

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AT&T Has The Most Disappointing Big Company Stock This Year

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AT&T Inc’s (NYSE: T | T Price Prediction) stock has posted the worst performance of any large-cap company this year. It is off by 27% in 2020, which is more than any stock among the 50 public corporations with the highest market capitalizations. Over the same period, the S&P 500 is higher by 7%.

The AT&T drop is staggering compared to the top five company’s based on market capitalization. Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares are higher by 89%. Microsoft Corp’s are up 58%. Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) is up 82%. Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) shares are up by 29%. Facebook, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) are higher by 53%.

Total operating revenue fell by 5% $42.3 billion in the most recent quarter, compared to the same quarter last year. EPS dropped 22% to $.39 for the same period. Long term debt is a massive $153 billion.

And, the stock continues to fall despite an impressive dividend yield of 7.48% on a payout of $2.08.

 

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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