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

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

Liberty Global announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program on Tuesday, December 19th 2017, which allows the company to buyback $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Liberty Global PLC (NASDAQ:LBTYK) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 8th. The company reported ($0.50) earnings per share for the quarter. The company earned $2.85 billion during the quarter. Liberty Global had a negative return on equity of 26.88% and a net margin of 9.11%. View Liberty Global's Earnings History.

Liberty Global is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 6th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Liberty Global.

Liberty Global will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, November 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

1 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Liberty Global's shares. Their forecasts range from $33.00 to $33.00. On average, they expect Liberty Global's stock price to reach $33.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 35.6% 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 coverage about LBTYK stock has trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Liberty Global earned a media sentiment score of -1.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Liberty Global.

Liberty Global saw a drop in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 10,530,000 shares, a drop of 62.5% from the August 30th total of 28,100,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,850,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.2 days. Currently, 2.1% of the company's stock 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 A (LBRDA), Liberty Broadband Corp Series C (LBRDK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Altice USA (ATUS), Liberty Global (LBTYB), DISH Network (DISH), Discovery Communications (DISCA), Discovery Inc Series C (DISCK), Roku (ROKU), 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), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Medtronic (MDT), Discovery Communications (DISCA), Liberty Latin America (LILA) and Sirius XM (SIRI).

Liberty Global's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.06%), Founders Capital Management LLC (0.03%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.03%), Beacon Financial Group (0.01%), Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd (0.00%) and NEXT Financial Group Inc (0.00%).

LBTYK stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Cerebellum GP LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Founders Capital Management LLC, Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd, Signaturefd LLC, Beacon Financial Group and Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI.

LBTYK stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Cerebellum GP LLC and NEXT Financial Group Inc.

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 $24.34.

Liberty Global has a market capitalization of $17.78 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]