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LBTYK vs. LBRDK, LBRDA, ROKU, KT, TIMB, FYBR, SKM, PARA, LLYVK, and LLYVA

Should you be buying Liberty Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Global include Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Roku (ROKU), KT (KT), TIM (TIMB), Frontier Communications Parent (FYBR), SK Telecom (SKM), Paramount Global (PARA), Liberty Media Corporation - Liberty Live Series C (LLYVK), and Liberty Media Corporation - Liberty Live Series A (LLYVA). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.

Liberty Global vs. Its Competitors

Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYK) and Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDK) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.

46.1% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.2% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of Liberty Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Liberty Broadband has a consensus price target of $80.00, suggesting a potential downside of 20.41%. Given Liberty Broadband's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Liberty Broadband 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
Liberty Broadband
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

In the previous week, Liberty Global and Liberty Global both had 4 articles in the media. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Liberty Broadband's score of 0.74 indicating that Liberty Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Liberty Global
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Liberty Broadband
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Liberty Broadband has a net margin of 88.10% compared to Liberty Global's net margin of -4.25%. Liberty Broadband's return on equity of 9.24% beat Liberty Global's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Liberty Global-4.25% -1.15% -0.53%
Liberty Broadband 88.10%9.24%5.43%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Liberty Global$4.34B0.82$1.59B-$0.97-10.52
Liberty Broadband$1.02B14.18$869M$6.2616.06

Liberty Global has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Broadband has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Liberty Broadband beats Liberty Global on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LBTYK and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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LBTYK vs. The Competition

MetricLiberty GlobalBRDCST IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$3.55B$22.53B$8.30B$9.03B
Dividend YieldN/A5.20%3.21%4.11%
P/E Ratio-10.509.8421.0420.10
Price / Sales0.821.503.32108.06
Price / Cash1.2632.8417.3356.90
Price / Book0.282.224.615.65
Net Income$1.59B-$19.04M$212.83M$248.47M
7 Day Performance1.14%4.44%3.75%2.80%
1 Month Performance3.39%11.32%10.53%5.62%
1 Year Performance-43.62%17.23%10.30%21.20%

Liberty Global Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LBTYK
Liberty Global
0.6661 of 5 stars
$10.21
0.0%
N/A-44.0%$3.55B$4.34B-10.5010,100Positive News
LBRDK
Liberty Broadband
2.4176 of 5 stars
$93.39
+1.2%
$80.00
-14.3%
+81.3%$13.22B$1.02B14.921,900News Coverage
Positive News
LBRDA
Liberty Broadband
3.1538 of 5 stars
$92.45
+1.0%
$86.20
-6.8%
+80.9%$13.12B$1.02B14.771,900
ROKU
Roku
2.6191 of 5 stars
$80.90
-0.1%
$89.93
+11.2%
+40.8%$11.82B$4.11B-110.823,340
KT
KT
4.3237 of 5 stars
$19.77
-0.2%
N/A+59.2%$10.21B$19.37B26.7116,927
TIMB
TIM
3.6798 of 5 stars
$19.21
-0.9%
$17.33
-9.8%
+43.4%$9.38B$4.72B15.379,127
FYBR
Frontier Communications Parent
0.5254 of 5 stars
$36.20
+0.1%
$36.07
-0.4%
+40.0%$9.05B$5.94B0.0013,000News Coverage
SKM
SK Telecom
2.8157 of 5 stars
$22.53
-0.1%
N/A+13.6%$8.88B$13.15B9.3124,224High Trading Volume
PARA
Paramount Global
0.9176 of 5 stars
$12.32
-0.2%
$11.33
-8.0%
+19.8%$8.33B$29.21B-1.5018,600Trending News
LLYVK
Liberty Media Corporation - Liberty Live Series C
1.0226 of 5 stars
$80.86
+1.3%
N/A+107.6%$7.33BN/A299.486,800Positive News
LLYVA
Liberty Media Corporation - Liberty Live Series A
0.7151 of 5 stars
$79.57
+1.4%
N/A+108.2%$7.20BN/A290.526,800Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:LBTYK) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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