ATUS vs. CABO, LILAK, LILA, QRTEB, ADEA, AMCX, WOW, AREN, TRKAQ, and CMCSA
Should you be buying Altice USA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Altice USA include Cable One (CABO), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Qurate Retail (QRTEB), Adeia (ADEA), AMC Networks (AMCX), WideOpenWest (WOW), The Arena Group (AREN), Troika Media Group (TRKAQ), and Comcast (CMCSA). These companies are all part of the "cable & other pay television services" industry.
Cable One (NYSE:CABO) and Altice USA (NYSE:ATUS) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
Altice USA received 212 more outperform votes than Cable One when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.94% of users gave Altice USA an outperform vote while only 61.15% of users gave Cable One an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Altice USA had 1 more articles in the media than Cable One. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Altice USA and 8 mentions for Cable One. Altice USA's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Cable One's score of 1.19 indicating that Cable One is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cable One has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Altice USA. Cable One is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Altice USA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.9% of Cable One shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.9% of Altice USA shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Cable One shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 53.6% of Altice USA shares are held 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.
Cable One presently has a consensus price target of $590.83, suggesting a potential upside of 61.87%. Altice USA has a consensus price target of $2.41, suggesting a potential upside of 0.05%. Given Altice USA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Cable One is more favorable than Altice USA.
Cable One has a net margin of 15.50% compared to Cable One's net margin of 0.07%. Altice USA's return on equity of 12.76% beat Cable One's return on equity.
Cable One has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Altice USA has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cable One beats Altice USA on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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