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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 better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and media sentiment.

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 Broadband has a consensus price target of $80.00, indicating a potential downside of 15.68%. Given Liberty Broadband's stronger consensus rating and higher possible 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

46.1% of Liberty Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.2% of Liberty Broadband shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.9% of Liberty Global shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of Liberty Broadband shares are owned by company 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 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-$0.97-10.58
Liberty Broadband$1.02B13.38$869M$6.2615.16

In the previous week, Liberty Broadband had 3 more articles in the media than Liberty Global. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Liberty Broadband and 1 mentions for Liberty Global. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat Liberty Broadband's score of 1.81 indicating that Liberty Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Liberty Global Very Positive
Liberty Broadband Very Positive

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

Summary

Liberty Broadband beats Liberty Global on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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$3.67B$21.92B$8.39B$9.11B
Dividend YieldN/A4.94%3.12%4.01%
P/E Ratio-10.587.6118.2919.92
Price / Sales0.821.473.3499.65
Price / Cash1.2734.7216.9458.16
Price / Book0.292.174.655.49
Net Income$1.59B-$19.04M$214.95M$250.27M
7 Day Performance0.44%1.76%36.56%4.78%
1 Month Performance-0.19%9.89%44.94%7.20%
1 Year Performance-45.66%18.66%17.53%17.27%

Liberty Global Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LBTYK
Liberty Global
1.0034 of 5 stars
$10.26
-2.5%
N/A-43.3%$3.67B$4.34B-10.5810,100Positive News
LBRDK
Liberty Broadband
2.6154 of 5 stars
$98.38
+2.3%
$80.00
-18.7%
+84.6%$13.78B$1.02B15.721,900News Coverage
Positive News
LBRDA
Liberty Broadband
3.0829 of 5 stars
$97.82
+2.4%
$86.20
-11.9%
+85.3%$13.70B$1.02B15.631,900Positive News
ROKU
Roku
2.1767 of 5 stars
$87.89
+1.1%
$89.93
+2.3%
+47.1%$12.69B$4.11B-120.403,340Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
KT
KT
4.3621 of 5 stars
$20.78
+2.4%
N/A+57.9%$10.47B$19.37B22.5916,927Trending News
TIMB
TIM
3.4545 of 5 stars
$20.12
+3.4%
$17.33
-13.9%
+29.7%$9.42B$4.72B16.109,127
FYBR
Frontier Communications Parent
0.3037 of 5 stars
$36.40
+0.3%
$36.07
-0.9%
+43.0%$9.08B$5.94B-23.4813,000
SKM
SK Telecom
1.5051 of 5 stars
$23.33
+1.7%
N/A+6.4%$9.04B$13.15B9.6424,224
PARA
Paramount Global
1.427 of 5 stars
$12.90
+3.0%
$11.50
-10.9%
+9.1%$8.45B$29.21B-1.5718,600
LLYVK
Liberty Media Corporation - Liberty Live Series C
0.7925 of 5 stars
$81.16
+0.9%
N/A+110.1%$7.39BN/A300.596,800News Coverage
Positive News
LLYVA
Liberty Media Corporation - Liberty Live Series A
0.8438 of 5 stars
$79.48
+0.9%
N/A+111.9%$7.23BN/A294.376,800Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:LBTYK) was last updated on 7/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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