QRTEB vs. CABO, LILAK, LILA, ADEA, ATUS, AMCX, WOW, AREN, CMCSA, and CHTR
Should you be buying Qurate Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Qurate Retail include Cable One (CABO), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Adeia (ADEA), Altice USA (ATUS), AMC Networks (AMCX), WideOpenWest (WOW), The Arena Group (AREN), Comcast (CMCSA), and Charter Communications (CHTR). These companies are all part of the "cable & other pay television services" industry.
Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEB) and Cable One (NYSE:CABO) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Cable One has a net margin of 15.50% compared to Qurate Retail's net margin of -1.56%. Qurate Retail's return on equity of 23.19% beat Cable One's return on equity.
Cable One has a consensus price target of $590.83, suggesting a potential upside of 49.70%. Given Cable One's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cable One is more favorable than Qurate Retail.
Cable One has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Qurate Retail. Qurate Retail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cable One, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
2.3% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Cable One shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of Qurate Retail shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Cable One shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cable One received 100 more outperform votes than Qurate Retail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.78% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 61.15% of users gave Cable One an outperform vote.
Qurate Retail has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cable One has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Cable One had 6 more articles in the media than Qurate Retail. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Cable One and 2 mentions for Qurate Retail. Qurate Retail's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Cable One's score of 0.32 indicating that Qurate Retail is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Cable One beats Qurate Retail on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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