PARA vs. LBRDA, NXST, TGNA, PARAA, FOX, SBGI, FOXA, WSC, PSO, and TAL
Should you be buying Paramount Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paramount Global include Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), TEGNA (TGNA), Paramount Global (PARAA), FOX (FOX), Sinclair (SBGI), FOX (FOXA), WillScot Mobile Mini (WSC), Pearson (PSO), and TAL Education Group (TAL).
Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARA) and Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDA) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Paramount Global had 15 more articles in the media than Liberty Broadband. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Paramount Global and 4 mentions for Liberty Broadband. Liberty Broadband's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Paramount Global's score of 0.23 indicating that Liberty Broadband is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Liberty Broadband has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Paramount Global. Paramount Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Broadband, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Paramount Global has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Broadband has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty Broadband has a net margin of 87.75% compared to Paramount Global's net margin of -0.15%. Liberty Broadband's return on equity of 9.55% beat Paramount Global's return on equity.
Paramount Global presently has a consensus price target of $13.58, indicating a potential upside of 15.17%. Liberty Broadband has a consensus price target of $110.00, indicating a potential upside of 116.37%. Given Liberty Broadband's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Liberty Broadband is more favorable than Paramount Global.
73.0% of Paramount Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.3% of Liberty Broadband shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Paramount Global shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of Liberty Broadband shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Liberty Broadband received 309 more outperform votes than Paramount Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.35% of users gave Liberty Broadband an outperform vote while only 14.84% of users gave Paramount Global an outperform vote.
Summary
Liberty Broadband beats Paramount Global on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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