LBRDA vs. CHTR, CMCSA, LBRDK, CHT, ASTS, TEF, VOD, FOXA, TU, and FWONK
Should you be buying Liberty Broadband stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Broadband include Charter Communications (CHTR), Comcast (CMCSA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), AST SpaceMobile (ASTS), Telefonica (TEF), Vodafone Group (VOD), FOX (FOXA), TELUS (TU), and Liberty Media Corporation - Liberty Formula One Series C (FWONK).
Liberty Broadband vs. Its Competitors
Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDA) and Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.
10.3% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of Charter Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 11.6% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Charter Communications 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 beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Charter Communications has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Charter Communications had 15 more articles in the media than Liberty Broadband. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Charter Communications and 2 mentions for Liberty Broadband. Liberty Broadband's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Charter Communications' score of 0.49 indicating that Liberty Broadband is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liberty Broadband presently has a consensus target price of $100.67, indicating a potential upside of 73.50%. Charter Communications has a consensus target price of $373.71, indicating a potential upside of 47.99%. Given Liberty Broadband's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Liberty Broadband is more favorable than Charter Communications.
Liberty Broadband has a net margin of 103.04% compared to Charter Communications' net margin of 9.53%. Charter Communications' return on equity of 26.77% beat Liberty Broadband's return on equity.
Charter Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty Broadband. Charter Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Broadband, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Liberty Broadband and Charter Communications tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LBRDA) was last updated on 10/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff