LBTYK vs. WBD, RCI, ROKU, LBRDK, LBRDA, LBTYA, CABO, LILAK, LILA, and QRTEB
Should you be buying Liberty Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Global include Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Rogers Communications (RCI), Roku (ROKU), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Cable One (CABO), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), and Qurate Retail (QRTEB). These companies are all part of the "cable & other pay television services" industry.
Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) and Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYK) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
60.0% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.1% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of Liberty Global shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Warner Bros. Discovery has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Global has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Warner Bros. Discovery has a net margin of -7.45% compared to Warner Bros. Discovery's net margin of -37.27%. Liberty Global's return on equity of -6.58% beat Warner Bros. Discovery's return on equity.
Warner Bros. Discovery has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty Global. Warner Bros. Discovery is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Warner Bros. Discovery currently has a consensus target price of $11.87, indicating a potential upside of 42.65%. Liberty Global has a consensus target price of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 37.40%. Given Liberty Global's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Warner Bros. Discovery is more favorable than Liberty Global.
Liberty Global received 130 more outperform votes than Warner Bros. Discovery when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.66% of users gave Liberty Global an outperform vote while only 45.74% of users gave Warner Bros. Discovery an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Warner Bros. Discovery had 46 more articles in the media than Liberty Global. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for Warner Bros. Discovery and 8 mentions for Liberty Global. Warner Bros. Discovery's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Liberty Global's score of 0.23 indicating that Liberty Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Warner Bros. Discovery beats Liberty Global on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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