ROKU vs. LBRDA, LBRDK, LBTYK, LBTYA, CABO, LILA, ATUS, WBD, RCI, and CZR
Should you be buying Roku stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Roku include Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Cable One (CABO), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Altice USA (ATUS), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Rogers Communications (RCI), and Caesars Entertainment (CZR).
Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDA) and Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, Roku had 59 more articles in the media than Liberty Broadband. MarketBeat recorded 61 mentions for Roku and 2 mentions for Liberty Broadband. Liberty Broadband's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Roku's score of -1.00 indicating that Roku is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Liberty Broadband has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Roku has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty Broadband currently has a consensus target price of $110.00, suggesting a potential upside of 121.95%. Roku has a consensus target price of $86.05, suggesting a potential upside of 52.71%. Given Roku's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Liberty Broadband is more favorable than Roku.
Roku received 338 more outperform votes than Liberty Broadband when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.35% of users gave Liberty Broadband an outperform vote while only 57.66% of users gave Roku an outperform vote.
Liberty Broadband has a net margin of 70.13% compared to Liberty Broadband's net margin of -15.64%. Roku's return on equity of 7.76% beat Liberty Broadband's return on equity.
Liberty Broadband has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Roku. Roku is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Broadband, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
10.3% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.3% of Roku shares are held by institutional investors. 19.7% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of Roku shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Liberty Broadband beats Roku on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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