CenturyLink Vs. Windstream: Comparison Of 7-9% Dividend Yields And Cloud Computing Operations

In our May 14th research report on CenturyLink (CTL), we couldn't help but notice how CenturyLink and its rural telecom competitors have had numerous dealings with Verizon Communications (VZ). We have decided to explore this further by comparing how each rural telecom company's deals with Verizon have worked out by comparing each firm in a series of head-to-head reports. We first compared FairPoint (FRP) against CenturyLink because FairPoint acquired Verizon's Northern New England operations. Despite FRP surprising us with a higher broadband customer growth rate, we could see that CenturyLink's deals with Verizon worked out better than FairPoint's purchase of Verizon Northern New England. We can make this conclusion because CenturyLink has not been forced into bankruptcy, unlike FairPoint. On September 11, we compared Frontier (FTR) against CenturyLink and we could see that CenturyLink is a much stronger company than Frontier and that Frontier should not have purchased the legacy... Read more