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 better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
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.
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.
Liberty Global presently has a consensus price target of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 61.87%. Rogers Communications has a consensus price target of $46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.51%. Given Liberty Global's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Liberty Global is more favorable than Rogers Communications.
46.1% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Rogers Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of Liberty Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of Rogers Communications shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Liberty Global has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rogers Communications has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Liberty Global had 4 more articles in the media than Rogers Communications. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Liberty Global and 3 mentions for Rogers Communications. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.29 beat Rogers Communications' score of 0.83 indicating that Liberty Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 56.75% of users gave Rogers Communications an outperform vote.
Summary
Rogers Communications beats Liberty Global on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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