TMUS - Better Buy: Frontier Communications vs. T-Mobile
T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FTR) are two rocketships headed in opposite directions. The Un-carrier has headed steadily skyward, gaining customers each quarter and gaining on its rivals. Frontier, meanwhile, has instead sputtered, not been able to climb, and started a slow but steady descent that will almost certainly end badly.
T-Mobile has been steadily adding customers. Image source: T-Mobile.
Sometimes you can make an argument that a struggling company offers value. Frontier is certainly struggling, as it has lost customers in every quarter since April 2016, when it closed its purchase of Verizon's wireline business in California, Texas, and Florida.