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iHeartMedia (IHRT) Competitors

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IHRT vs. LILAK, LILA, NMAX, TV, GOGO, ATUS, GTN.A, CABO, GTN, and WOW

Should you be buying iHeartMedia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iHeartMedia include Liberty Global (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Newsmax (NMAX), Grupo Televisa (TV), Gogo (GOGO), Altice USA (ATUS), Gray Media (GTN.A), Cable One (CABO), Gray Media (GTN), and WideOpenWest (WOW). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.

iHeartMedia vs. Its Competitors

iHeartMedia (NASDAQ:IHRT) and Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LILAK) are both small-cap communication companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Liberty Global has higher revenue and earnings than iHeartMedia. Liberty Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iHeartMedia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
iHeartMedia$3.85B0.12-$1.01B-$2.43-1.24
Liberty Global$4.46B0.37-$657M-$5.93-1.40

In the previous week, iHeartMedia had 2 more articles in the media than Liberty Global. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for iHeartMedia and 0 mentions for Liberty Global. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat iHeartMedia's score of -0.21 indicating that Liberty Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
iHeartMedia Neutral
Liberty Global Neutral

iHeartMedia has a net margin of -9.68% compared to Liberty Global's net margin of -26.61%. iHeartMedia's return on equity of 0.00% beat Liberty Global's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
iHeartMedia-9.68% N/A -1.74%
Liberty Global -26.61%-71.58%-9.23%

iHeartMedia currently has a consensus price target of $2.92, suggesting a potential downside of 3.26%. Liberty Global has a consensus price target of $7.85, suggesting a potential downside of 5.47%. Given iHeartMedia's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe iHeartMedia is more favorable than Liberty Global.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
iHeartMedia
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Liberty Global
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.67

93.9% of iHeartMedia shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.0% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of iHeartMedia shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.7% of Liberty Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

iHeartMedia has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Global has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

iHeartMedia beats Liberty Global on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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IHRT vs. The Competition

MetriciHeartMediaBRDCST IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$452.67M$22.63B$8.49B$10.63B
Dividend YieldN/A5.84%3.10%4.85%
P/E Ratio-1.2435.5118.3027.28
Price / Sales0.121.396.63188.33
Price / Cash0.899.5914.3430.35
Price / Book-0.332.264.946.69
Net Income-$1.01B$30.12M$255.94M$276.34M
7 Day Performance9.24%1.10%0.88%0.16%
1 Month Performance-0.50%-5.90%-3.12%3.95%
1 Year Performance72.29%391.86%35.44%33.43%

iHeartMedia Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IHRT
iHeartMedia
0.7509 of 5 stars
$3.02
+3.6%
$2.92
-3.3%
+54.8%$452.67M$3.85B-1.2410,100
LILAK
Liberty Global
0.2869 of 5 stars
$7.90
+1.9%
$7.85
-0.6%
-17.7%$1.55B$4.46B-1.3310,000Positive News
LILA
Liberty Latin America
2.5099 of 5 stars
$7.72
+1.6%
$6.50
-15.8%
-19.7%$1.52B$4.46B-1.3010,000Positive News
NMAX
Newsmax
N/A$11.59
+4.0%
$21.50
+85.4%
N/A$1.44B$171.02M0.00400
TV
Grupo Televisa
3.9709 of 5 stars
$2.38
+0.2%
$4.70
+97.9%
+1.0%$1.31B$3.42B-3.1728,038Trading Halted
GOGO
Gogo
3.5784 of 5 stars
$8.90
+0.1%
$14.83
+66.7%
+30.3%$1.19B$444.71M222.50380Positive News
ATUS
Altice USA
3.6429 of 5 stars
$2.46
+1.0%
$3.00
+22.2%
+4.5%$1.14B$8.95B-4.2310,900Gap Up
GTN.A
Gray Media
N/A$10.14
-2.8%
N/A+35.5%$1.06B$3.64B6.728,610Positive News
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CABO
Cable One
4.055 of 5 stars
$152.72
-1.8%
$279.25
+82.8%
-53.6%$875.20M$1.58B-1.732,817News Coverage
GTN
Gray Media
4.8345 of 5 stars
$4.75
+1.8%
$6.88
+44.9%
-18.3%$475.72M$3.64B3.149,502Positive News
WOW
WideOpenWest
1.6207 of 5 stars
$5.14
+0.6%
$5.85
+13.8%
+2.1%$438.27M$630.90M-6.511,320News Coverage

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This page (NASDAQ:IHRT) was last updated on 10/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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