LBRDK vs. RCI, WBD, ROKU, LBRDA, LBTYK, LBTYA, CABO, LILAK, LILA, and QRTEB
Should you be buying Liberty Broadband stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Broadband include Rogers Communications (RCI), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Roku (ROKU), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Global (LBTYK), 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.
Rogers Communications (NYSE:RCI) and Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDK) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
45.5% of Rogers Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.2% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by institutional investors. 29.0% of Rogers Communications shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Liberty Broadband had 4 more articles in the media than Rogers Communications. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Liberty Broadband and 4 mentions for Rogers Communications. Rogers Communications' average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Liberty Broadband's score of 0.83 indicating that Liberty Broadband is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rogers Communications has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Broadband has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rogers Communications currently has a consensus price target of $46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.69%. Liberty Broadband has a consensus price target of $116.50, suggesting a potential upside of 126.30%. Given Rogers Communications' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Liberty Broadband is more favorable than Rogers Communications.
Liberty Broadband has a net margin of 87.75% compared to Liberty Broadband's net margin of 2.90%. Liberty Broadband's return on equity of 21.92% beat Rogers Communications' return on equity.
Rogers Communications received 153 more outperform votes than Liberty Broadband when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.75% of users gave Rogers Communications an outperform vote while only 56.54% of users gave Liberty Broadband an outperform vote.
Liberty Broadband has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Rogers Communications. Liberty Broadband is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rogers Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Liberty Broadband beats Rogers Communications on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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