There's a report on DISH at fool.com that shows 4Q subscriber numbers grew by 438,000 from about 2,962,000, for a projected annualized growth of 59.1%.
GMH in the 4Q added 515,000 to a base of about 7,485,000, for an annualized growth of 27.5%.
Here's an extract from the above link:
"On key growth measures, the company continues to deliver. In the fourth quarter, EchoStar added 438,000 net subscribers (excluding churn). Total subscribers for the year grew 63% to 3.4 million as the company added 1.4 million during the year.
By comparison, number one satellite television company DirecTV, a division within Hughes Electronics (NYSE: GMH) , added 515,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter, and has more than 8 million U.S. customers."
That's probably why DISH has been a hotter stock than GMH. I have not looked at the market caps.
There's another Fool article at fool.com that talks about GMH, also an interesting piece about how to evaluate companies using subscriber numbers at fool.com
ILG (got lots of DISH, a little GMH) |
