NASDAQ:LBTYA - Liberty Global PLC Class A Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Liberty Global PLC Class A trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LBTYA."

Liberty Global PLC Class A declared that its board has approved a share buyback plan on Tuesday, December 19th 2017, which permits the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Liberty Global PLC Class A (NASDAQ:LBTYA) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, August, 8th. The company reported $0.80 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.12 by $0.68. The business had revenue of $3.05 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.06 billion. Liberty Global PLC Class A had a negative return on equity of 27.88% and a negative net margin of 11.46%. View Liberty Global PLC Class A's Earnings History.

Liberty Global PLC Class A is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November, 7th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Liberty Global PLC Class A.

14 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Liberty Global PLC Class A's shares. Their forecasts range from $34.00 to $50.00. On average, they expect Liberty Global PLC Class A's share price to reach $40.30 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 51.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Liberty Global PLC Class A.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Liberty Global PLC Class A in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 1 hold rating and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Liberty Global PLC Class A.

Some companies that are related to Liberty Global PLC Class A include Twenty-First Century Fox Inc Class A (FOXA), Time Warner (TWX), Charter Communications (CHTR), Rogers Communications Inc. Class B (RCI), Liberty Global PLC Class B (LBTYB), Liberty Global PLC Class C (LBTYK), DISH Network (DISH), Liberty Broadband Corp Series C (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband Corp Series A (LBRDA), DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS INC. Common Stock (DISCA), Altice USA (ATUS), Discovery Inc Series C (DISCK), Viacom, Inc. Class B (VIAB), Qurate Retail Inc Series B (QRTEB) and Shaw Communications Inc Class B (SJR).

News headlines about LBTYA stock have been trending positive on Saturday, Accern Sentiment reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Liberty Global PLC Class A earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.28 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the company an impact score of 48.98 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for Liberty Global PLC Class A.

Liberty Global PLC Class A's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (1.41%), FMR LLC (0.66%), Gabelli Funds LLC (0.19%), Beck Mack & Oliver LLC (0.17%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (0.15%) and Wallace Capital Management Inc. (0.12%). Company insiders that own Liberty Global PLC Class A stock include Bryan H Hall, Charles H R Bracken, David E Rapley, J C Sparkman, J David Wargo, John C Malone, Michael T Fries, Miranda Curtis, Paul A Gould and Richard R Green. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Liberty Global PLC Class A.

LBTYA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Employees Retirement System of Texas, Sei Investments Co., Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Russell Investments Group Ltd., SG Americas Securities LLC, Korea Investment CORP, BlackRock Inc. and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V.. Company insiders that have sold Liberty Global PLC Class A company stock in the last year include Charles H R Bracken, David E Rapley, J C Sparkman, John C Malone, Miranda Curtis, Paul A Gould and Richard R Green. View Insider Buying and Selling for Liberty Global PLC Class A.

LBTYA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wallace Capital Management Inc., FMR LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Macquarie Group Ltd., Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc., Engineers Gate Manager LP and KBC Group NV. Company insiders that have bought Liberty Global PLC Class A stock in the last two years include Bryan H Hall, J David Wargo, John C Malone, Michael T Fries and Paul A Gould. View Insider Buying and Selling for Liberty Global PLC Class A.

Shares of LBTYA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LBTYA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $26.54.

Liberty Global PLC Class A has a market capitalization of $22.19 billion and generates $15.05 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $-2,778,100,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($2.29) on an earnings per share basis. Liberty Global PLC Class A employs 26,700 workers across the globe.

Liberty Global PLC Class A's mailing address is 161 HAMMERSMITH ROAD Griffin House, HAMMERSMITH X0, 80202. The company can be reached via phone at 44-20-8483-6300 or via email at [email protected]