CABO vs. ROKU, LBRDA, LBRDK, LBTYK, LBTYA, LILAK, LILA, QRTEB, ADEA, and ATUS
Should you be buying Cable One stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cable One include Roku (ROKU), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Qurate Retail (QRTEB), Adeia (ADEA), and Altice USA (ATUS). These companies are all part of the "cable & other pay television services" industry.
Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU) and Cable One (NYSE:CABO) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
Roku received 372 more outperform votes than Cable One when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.15% of users gave Cable One an outperform vote while only 57.75% of users gave Roku an outperform vote.
86.3% of Roku shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Cable One shares are held by institutional investors. 14.0% of Roku shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Cable One 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 has a net margin of 15.50% compared to Cable One's net margin of -15.64%. Roku's return on equity of 12.76% beat Cable One's return on equity.
Roku presently has a consensus price target of $82.50, suggesting a potential upside of 43.85%. Cable One has a consensus price target of $590.83, suggesting a potential upside of 57.66%. Given Roku's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cable One is more favorable than Roku.
Roku has a beta of 1.92, indicating that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cable One has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Roku had 19 more articles in the media than Cable One. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Roku and 2 mentions for Cable One. Roku's average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat Cable One's score of 0.30 indicating that Cable One is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cable One has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Roku. Roku is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cable One, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cable One beats Roku on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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