LILAK vs. LILA, GSAT, TKC, AD, PHI, LBTYK, VEON, TGNA, TEO, and ADEA
Should you be buying Liberty Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Global include Liberty Latin America (LILA), Globalstar (GSAT), Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS (TKC), Array Digital Infrastructure (AD), PLDT (PHI), Liberty Global (LBTYK), VEON (VEON), TEGNA (TGNA), Telecom Argentina Stet - France Telecom (TEO), and Adeia (ADEA). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
Liberty Global vs. Its Competitors
Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LILAK) and Liberty Latin America (NASDAQ:LILA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and risk.
Liberty Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Latin America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Liberty Global's return on equity of -71.58% beat Liberty Latin America's return on equity.
Liberty Global currently has a consensus target price of $7.85, suggesting a potential downside of 0.63%. Liberty Latin America has a consensus target price of $6.50, suggesting a potential downside of 15.80%. Given Liberty Global's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Liberty Global is more favorable than Liberty Latin America.
53.0% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.5% of Liberty Latin America shares are held by institutional investors. 9.7% of Liberty Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Liberty Latin America shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Liberty Global has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Latin America has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Liberty Global had 2 more articles in the media than Liberty Latin America. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Liberty Global and 3 mentions for Liberty Latin America. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Liberty Latin America's score of 1.45 indicating that Liberty Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Liberty Global beats Liberty Latin America on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LILAK) was last updated on 10/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff