CMCSA vs. CHTR, DISCA, SIRI, LBTYA, AMCX, RCI, WBD, ROKU, LBRDA, and LBRDK
Should you be buying Comcast stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Comcast include Charter Communications (CHTR), Warner Bros. Discovery (DISCA), Sirius XM (SIRI), Liberty Global (LBTYA), AMC Networks (AMCX), Rogers Communications (RCI), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Roku (ROKU), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), and Liberty Broadband (LBRDK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
Charter Communications presently has a consensus target price of $356.47, indicating a potential upside of 28.77%. Comcast has a consensus target price of $49.33, indicating a potential upside of 26.62%. Given Comcast's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Charter Communications is more favorable than Comcast.
Charter Communications has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comcast has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Comcast had 13 more articles in the media than Charter Communications. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Comcast and 6 mentions for Charter Communications. Comcast's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Charter Communications' score of 0.66 indicating that Charter Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Comcast has higher revenue and earnings than Charter Communications. Charter Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Comcast, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
81.8% of Charter Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of Comcast shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Charter Communications shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Comcast shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Comcast has a net margin of 12.64% compared to Comcast's net margin of 8.50%. Comcast's return on equity of 31.42% beat Charter Communications' return on equity.
Comcast received 479 more outperform votes than Charter Communications when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.55% of users gave Comcast an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Charter Communications an outperform vote.
Summary
Comcast beats Charter Communications on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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