RCI vs. WBD, ROKU, LBRDA, LBRDK, LBTYK, LBTYA, CHTR, K, ONON, and LYV
Should you be buying Rogers Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rogers Communications include Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Roku (ROKU), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Charter Communications (CHTR), Kellanova (K), ON (ONON), and Live Nation Entertainment (LYV). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) and Rogers Communications (NYSE:RCI) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking and risk.
60.0% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Rogers Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of Rogers Communications shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Warner Bros. Discovery had 16 more articles in the media than Rogers Communications. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Warner Bros. Discovery and 4 mentions for Rogers Communications. Warner Bros. Discovery's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Rogers Communications' score of 0.15 indicating that Rogers Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Warner Bros. Discovery has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rogers Communications has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rogers Communications has a net margin of 2.90% compared to Rogers Communications' net margin of -7.57%. Warner Bros. Discovery's return on equity of 21.92% beat Rogers Communications' return on equity.
Rogers Communications received 373 more outperform votes than Warner Bros. Discovery when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.82% of users gave Rogers Communications an outperform vote while only 42.17% of users gave Warner Bros. Discovery an outperform vote.
Warner Bros. Discovery presently has a consensus price target of $13.83, suggesting a potential upside of 77.35%. Rogers Communications has a consensus price target of $46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.19%. Given Rogers Communications' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Warner Bros. Discovery is more favorable than Rogers Communications.
Rogers Communications has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Warner Bros. Discovery. Warner Bros. Discovery 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
Rogers Communications beats Warner Bros. Discovery on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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