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Liberty Global (LBTYB) Competitors

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LBTYB vs. RCI, LBRDK, LBRDA, ROKU, LBTYK, LBTYA, CABO, ADEA, ATUS, and LILAK

Should you be buying Liberty Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Global include Rogers Communications (RCI), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Roku (ROKU), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Cable One (CABO), Adeia (ADEA), Altice USA (ATUS), and Liberty Latin America (LILAK). These companies are all part of the "cable & other pay television services" industry.

Liberty Global vs.

Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYB) and Rogers Communications (NYSE:RCI) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Liberty Global has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rogers Communications has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

0.5% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Rogers Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 6.5% of Liberty Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of Rogers Communications shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Liberty Global$4.34B0.92-$4.05B$4.192.68
Rogers Communications$20.68B0.66$1.27B$2.3310.95

In the previous week, Rogers Communications had 35 more articles in the media than Liberty Global. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Rogers Communications and 1 mentions for Liberty Global. Rogers Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Liberty Global's score of 0.00 indicating that Rogers Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Liberty Global Neutral
Rogers Communications Positive

Rogers Communications has a consensus price target of $67.00, suggesting a potential upside of 162.55%. Given Rogers Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Rogers Communications is more favorable than Liberty Global.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Liberty Global
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Rogers Communications
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

Rogers Communications received 219 more outperform votes than Liberty Global when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.72% of users gave Liberty Global an outperform vote while only 56.15% of users gave Rogers Communications an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Liberty GlobalOutperform Votes
192
58.72%
Underperform Votes
135
41.28%
Rogers CommunicationsOutperform Votes
411
56.15%
Underperform Votes
321
43.85%

Liberty Global has a net margin of 23.09% compared to Rogers Communications' net margin of 8.40%. Rogers Communications' return on equity of 25.19% beat Liberty Global's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Liberty Global23.09% 9.83% 4.49%
Rogers Communications 8.40%25.19%3.86%

Summary

Rogers Communications beats Liberty Global on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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LBTYB vs. The Competition

MetricLiberty GlobalCable & other pay television services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.97B$12.49B$7.50B$7.96B
Dividend YieldN/A4.78%3.39%4.23%
P/E Ratio2.726.8516.4518.55
Price / Sales0.922.027.47103.38
Price / Cash1.387.8016.4234.62
Price / Book0.321.464.414.25
Net Income-$4.05B$588.01M$260.40M$248.27M

Liberty Global Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LBTYB
Liberty Global
0.5478 of 5 stars
$11.23
-8.0%
N/A-28.9%$3.97B$4.34B2.722,020
RCI
Rogers Communications
4.8759 of 5 stars
$25.50
+1.4%
$67.00
+162.7%
-30.4%$13.67B$20.68B10.9923,000Dividend Increase
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
LBRDK
Liberty Broadband
2.3071 of 5 stars
$86.93
+0.8%
$80.00
-8.0%
+81.8%$12.46B$1.02B16.011,900Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Positive News
LBRDA
Liberty Broadband
3.2703 of 5 stars
$85.90
+1.0%
$86.20
+0.3%
+77.6%$12.31B$1.02B15.821,900Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
ROKU
Roku
3.4146 of 5 stars
$68.14
+3.7%
$89.93
+32.0%
+18.2%$9.94B$4.11B-76.563,600Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
LBTYK
Liberty Global
1.5911 of 5 stars
$11.44
+1.3%
N/A-30.7%$3.99B$4.34B2.7310,100Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
LBTYA
Liberty Global
3.3716 of 5 stars
$11.02
+1.3%
$17.43
+58.2%
-31.1%$3.84B$4.34B2.6310,100Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
CABO
Cable One
4.8994 of 5 stars
$271.82
+0.7%
$417.75
+53.7%
-32.0%$1.53B$1.58B6.293,130Positive News
ADEA
Adeia
3.0262 of 5 stars
$12.37
-0.4%
$18.33
+48.2%
+25.1%$1.34B$376.02M21.70120Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
ATUS
Altice USA
2.0871 of 5 stars
$2.41
+2.1%
$2.67
+10.7%
+28.0%$1.12B$8.95B-10.4811,000Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
LILAK
Liberty Latin America
2.3121 of 5 stars
$5.60
+0.4%
$10.27
+83.3%
-27.1%$1.10B$4.46B-1.6811,000Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:LBTYB) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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