LBTYK vs. RCI, WBD, ROKU, LBRDA, LBRDK, LBTYA, CABO, LILAK, LILA, and QRTEB
Should you be buying Liberty Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Global include Rogers Communications (RCI), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Roku (ROKU), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Cable One (CABO), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), and Qurate Retail (QRTEB). These companies are all part of the "cable & other pay television services" industry.
Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYK) and Rogers Communications (NYSE:RCI) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
In the previous week, Rogers Communications had 6 more articles in the media than Liberty Global. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Rogers Communications and 2 mentions for Liberty Global. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Rogers Communications' score of 1.13 indicating that Liberty Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liberty Global has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rogers Communications has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rogers Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty Global. Liberty Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rogers Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
46.1% of Liberty Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Rogers Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.9% of Liberty Global shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of Rogers Communications shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Rogers Communications received 235 more outperform votes than Liberty Global when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.28% of users gave Liberty Global an outperform vote while only 56.59% of users gave Rogers Communications an outperform vote.
Liberty Global currently has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 46.90%. Rogers Communications has a consensus target price of $46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.38%. Given Liberty Global's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Liberty Global is more favorable than Rogers Communications.
Rogers Communications has a net margin of 2.90% compared to Liberty Global's net margin of -37.27%. Rogers Communications' return on equity of 21.92% beat Liberty Global's return on equity.
Summary
Rogers Communications beats Liberty Global on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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