WBD vs. RCI, ROKU, LBRDK, LBRDA, LBTYK, LBTYA, CHTR, ONON, RBLX, and K
Should you be buying Warner Bros. Discovery stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Warner Bros. Discovery include Rogers Communications (RCI), Roku (ROKU), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Charter Communications (CHTR), ON (ONON), Roblox (RBLX), and Kellanova (K). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) and Rogers Communications (NYSE:RCI) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Warner Bros. Discovery has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rogers Communications has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Warner Bros. Discovery presently has a consensus target price of $14.24, indicating a potential upside of 63.06%. Rogers Communications has a consensus target price of $52.00, indicating a potential upside of 26.83%. Given Warner Bros. Discovery's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Warner Bros. Discovery is more favorable than Rogers Communications.
60.0% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Rogers Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of Rogers Communications shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Rogers Communications has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Warner Bros. Discovery. Warner Bros. Discovery is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rogers Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rogers Communications received 372 more outperform votes than Warner Bros. Discovery when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.84% of users gave Rogers Communications an outperform vote while only 42.68% of users gave Warner Bros. Discovery an outperform vote.
Rogers Communications has a net margin of 4.38% compared to Warner Bros. Discovery's net margin of -7.57%. Rogers Communications' return on equity of 22.17% beat Warner Bros. Discovery's return on equity.
In the previous week, Warner Bros. Discovery had 9 more articles in the media than Rogers Communications. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Warner Bros. Discovery and 5 mentions for Rogers Communications. Warner Bros. Discovery's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Rogers Communications' score of 0.36 indicating that Warner Bros. Discovery is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Rogers Communications beats Warner Bros. Discovery on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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