Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. CTS scored 56.8, TEL scored 70.5 — TEL leads.
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CTS
CTS Corporation
Electronic Components · Quality-Growth
56.8
$57.25 · $1.6B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
13.7
TEL leads
TEL
TE Connectivity plc
Electronic Components · Quality-Growth
70.5
$218.29 · $63.2B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestTEL21.4x
Fastest growthTEL+16.5%
Strongest balance sheetCTS0.16
Highest qualityTEL81 / 100
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
CTS
stronger →← stronger
TEL
73
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
81
60
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
81
41
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
54
TEL is stronger on 3 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
CTS
TEL
$91mC-
FCF
$3.3bB
+5.2%C+
Rev
+16.5%B+
0.16B+
D/E
0.43B
24.0xB+
P/E
21.4xB+
1.24B
PEG
0.92B+
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
CTS
TEL
16% above
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
16% above
~8%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~13%/yr
-15%
1-yr DCF upside
-24%
-14%
5-yr DCF upside
-14%
-12%
10-yr DCF upside
+2%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
CTS
Why this score
Buying back stock
TEL
Why this score
Buying back stock
Raising its dividend
The companies
CTSCTS Corporation
Electronic Components · $57.25 · beta 0.99
Why now
Electronic Components · market cap $1.6b. 18% off the 52-week high of $69.55. 3 sell-side analysts rate this a Strong Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $70.67 (implying +23% upside).
Moat
Net margin 12% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 12% meets the long-run market sustainable threshold — solid but not differentiated; the durability comes from elsewhere. FCF converts 131% of net income — earnings translate cleanly into cash.
Risk
Mature compounder — the risk is paying up for quality at a moment when growth is decelerating. Watch for sequential revenue + margin trends; the inflection from "compounder" to "ex-compounder" is hard to spot until the multiple already started compressing.
TELTE Connectivity plc
Electronic Components · $218.29 · beta 1.14
Why now
Electronic Components · market cap $63.2b. 14% off the 52-week high of $252.56. Revenue growing +17%, comfortably above the S&P median. PEG 0.92 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 19 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $250.74 (implying +15% upside).
Moat
Net margin 16% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 23% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. FCF converts 110% of net income — earnings translate cleanly into cash.
Risk
Value re-rating depends on a catalyst. Without one — analyst day, divestiture, margin recovery, capital return — the stock can stay cheap on these multiples for years.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
TEL leads CTS by 11.2 points (71.3 to 60.1), its sharpest advantage coming in FCF (grade B). A contrarian could still prefer CTS for its stronger D/E (grade B+). Note they play different roles — CTS screens as growth, TEL screens as value — so the model rewards different traits for each.
Our AI analyst is busy right now, so this verdict is drawn directly from the pillars, grades and DCF above.
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Where CTS and TEL diverge
On the headline score the gap is 13.7 points in favor of TEL. The widest single difference is Growth, where TEL leads by 20.4 points.
GrowthCTS 60.5 · TEL 80.9TEL +20.4
ValueCTS 41.4 · TEL 53.6TEL +12.2
QualityCTS 73.1 · TEL 80.9TEL +7.8
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is TEL or CTS the better stock?
TEL scores higher: TEL 70.5, CTS 56.8 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do TEL and CTS differ most?
The widest gap is growth, where TEL leads by 20 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. TEL leads all three pillars, so the gap is broad rather than a single-measure difference.
How are TEL and CTS scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.