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ERIC vs TEF

Side-by-side comparison of Ericsson (ERIC) and Telefonica SA (TEF): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • ERIC operates in Technology, while TEF operates in Telecommunications - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • ERIC is the larger of the two at $39.51B, about 1.5x TEF ($26.51B).
  • Over the past year, ERIC is up 42.7% and TEF is down 27.0% - ERIC leads by 69.7 points.
  • ERIC has hit the wire 12 times in the past 4 weeks while TEF has been quiet.
  • ERIC has more recent analyst coverage (21 ratings vs 13 for TEF).
PerformanceERIC+26.09%TEF-26.99%
2025-11-20+0.00%2026-06-22
MetricERICTEF
Company
Ericsson
Telefonica SA
Price
$11.72+3.08%
$3.81-0.91%
Market cap
$39.51B
$26.51B
1M return
-9.81%
-8.29%
1Y return
+42.67%
-26.99%
Industry
Radio And Television Broadcasting And Communications Equipment
Telecommunications Equipment
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
1988
News (4w)
12
0
Recent ratings
21
13
ERIC

Ericsson

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), together with its subsidiaries, provides communication infrastructure, services, and software solutions to the telecom and other sectors. It operates through four segments: Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services, and Emerging Business and Other. The Networks segment offers hardware, software, and related services for radio access and transport, as well as related services, such as design, tuning, network rollout, and customer support. The Digital Services segment provides products and services for operators in the areas of business support systems, operations support systems, cloud core, cloud communication, and cloud infrastructure, as well as consulting, learning, and testing services. The Managed Services segment offers networks and IT managed, network design and optimization, and application development and maintenance services to operators. The Emerging Business and Other segment consists of emerging businesses, including Internet of Things; iconectiv; Cradlepoint that provides wireless edge WAN 4G and 5G enterprise solutions; and Red Bee Media, MediaKind, and other new businesses. It operates in North America, Europe and Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, South East Asia, Oceania, India, North East Asia, and internationally. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

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.