FYBR vs. LBRDA, GLIBA, CABO, TEF, VIV, KT, PHI, TDS, LUMN, and SHEN
Should you be buying Frontier Communications Parent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Frontier Communications Parent include Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), GCI Liberty (GLIBA), Cable One (CABO), Telefónica (TEF), Telefônica Brasil (VIV), KT (KT), PLDT (PHI), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), Lumen Technologies (LUMN), and Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN).
Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDA) and Frontier Communications Parent (NASDAQ:FYBR) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Liberty Broadband has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Frontier Communications Parent has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty Broadband currently has a consensus price target of $64.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.16%. Frontier Communications Parent has a consensus price target of $30.38, suggesting a potential upside of 8.44%. Given Liberty Broadband's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Frontier Communications Parent is more favorable than Liberty Broadband.
In the previous week, Frontier Communications Parent had 3 more articles in the media than Liberty Broadband. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Frontier Communications Parent and 3 mentions for Liberty Broadband. Frontier Communications Parent's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Liberty Broadband's score of 0.71 indicating that Liberty Broadband is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liberty Broadband has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Frontier Communications Parent. Liberty Broadband is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Frontier Communications Parent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
10.3% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by institutional investors. 14.2% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Frontier Communications Parent shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Liberty Broadband has a net margin of 87.75% compared to Liberty Broadband's net margin of 0.47%. Frontier Communications Parent's return on equity of 9.55% beat Liberty Broadband's return on equity.
Liberty Broadband received 293 more outperform votes than Frontier Communications Parent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.28% of users gave Liberty Broadband an outperform vote while only 58.06% of users gave Frontier Communications Parent an outperform vote.
Summary
Liberty Broadband beats Frontier Communications Parent on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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