Liberty Global Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NASDAQ:LBTYK)

Liberty Global trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LBTYK."

Liberty Global declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase plan on Tuesday, December 19th 2017, which authorizes the company to buyback $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Liberty Global is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 26th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Liberty Global.

1 equities research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Liberty Global's stock. Their forecasts range from $33.00 to $33.00. On average, they anticipate Liberty Global's stock price to reach $33.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 51.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Liberty Global.

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

Media stories about LBTYK stock have trended very negative on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Liberty Global earned a coverage optimism score of -3.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Liberty Global.

Liberty Global saw a drop in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 9,800,000 shares, a drop of 10.1% from the September 30th total of 10,900,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,920,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.0 days. Approximately 2.0% of the company's shares are short sold. View Liberty Global's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Liberty Global include Rogers Communications (RCI), Liberty Broadband Corp Series C (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband Corp Series A (LBRDA), Roku (ROKU), DISH Network (DISH), Altice USA (ATUS), Discovery Communications (DISCA), Liberty Global (LBTYB), Discovery Inc Series C (DISCK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Shaw Communications (SJR), Viacom (VIAB), Cable One (CABO), ITV PLC/ADR (ITVPY) and Qurate Retail Inc Series B (QRTEB).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Liberty Global investors own include Liberty Global (LBTYA), Liberty Sirius XM Group Series A (LSXMA), Liberty Sirius XM Group Series C (LSXMK), Intuitive Surgical (isrg), Opko Health (OPK), Medtronic (MDT), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Discovery Communications (DISCA), Liberty Latin America (LILA) and Vodafone Group (VOD).

Liberty Global's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include ACR Alpine Capital Research LLC (0.84%), Gabelli Funds LLC (0.36%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.31%), Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. (0.25%), Gamco Investors INC. ET AL (0.18%) and California Public Employees Retirement System (0.17%).

LBTYK stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Gamco Investors INC. ET AL, Gabelli Funds LLC, Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc., Alexandria Capital LLC, ACR Alpine Capital Research LLC, Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund and Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

LBTYK stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including California Public Employees Retirement System, FNY Investment Advisers LLC, River Road Asset Management LLC, Hi Line Capital Management LLC, SG Americas Securities LLC, Keating Investment Counselors Inc., OTA Financial Group L.P. and Tower Research Capital LLC TRC.

Shares of LBTYK 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LBTYK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $21.82.

Liberty Global has a market capitalization of $13.80 billion and generates $11.96 billion in revenue each year. Liberty Global employs 26,600 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Liberty Global.

The official website for Liberty Global is http://www.libertyglobal.com/.

Liberty Global's mailing address is 161 HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON X0, W6 8BS. The company can be reached via phone at 44-20-8483-6449 or via email at [email protected]