CHTR vs. DISCA, DISH, CMCSA, SIRI, LBTYA, AMCX, RCI, WBD, ROKU, and LBRDA
Should you be buying Charter Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Charter Communications include Warner Bros. Discovery (DISCA), DISH Network (DISH), Comcast (CMCSA), Sirius XM (SIRI), Liberty Global (LBTYA), AMC Networks (AMCX), Rogers Communications (RCI), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Roku (ROKU), and Liberty Broadband (LBRDA).
Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) and Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:DISCA) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and community ranking.
81.8% of Charter Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.5% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Charter Communications shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Charter Communications has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Warner Bros. Discovery has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Charter Communications had 7 more articles in the media than Warner Bros. Discovery. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Charter Communications and 0 mentions for Warner Bros. Discovery. Charter Communications' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Warner Bros. Discovery's score of 0.00 indicating that Charter Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Charter Communications presently has a consensus target price of $356.47, suggesting a potential upside of 27.60%. Given Charter Communications' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Charter Communications is more favorable than Warner Bros. Discovery.
Charter Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Warner Bros. Discovery. Charter Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Warner Bros. Discovery, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Charter Communications has a net margin of 8.50% compared to Warner Bros. Discovery's net margin of 8.25%. Charter Communications' return on equity of 31.42% beat Warner Bros. Discovery's return on equity.
Charter Communications received 149 more outperform votes than Warner Bros. Discovery when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.79% of users gave Charter Communications an outperform vote while only 56.85% of users gave Warner Bros. Discovery an outperform vote.
Summary
Charter Communications beats Warner Bros. Discovery on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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