This research aims to determine the influence of each model of balance used for determining the return of shares measured by CAPM and APT in telecommunications sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2016-2018. The data collection method uses purposive sampling. The population used in this research is the stock price on telecommunication telecommunications sectors listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The purpose of this research is to compare the accuracy of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) in estimating the return of telecommunication stock return. From the results of the Median Absolute Deviation (MAD) value has a small difference. Based on the results of Independent Sample T-Test can be concluded that there is no significant difference between CAPM and APT method in predicting the return of telecommunications stocks return.