SJR vs. LBRDA, LBRDK, ROKU, LBTYK, LBTYA, DISH, RCI, CABO, WBD, and CHTR
Should you be buying Shaw Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shaw Communications include Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Roku (ROKU), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), DISH Network (DISH), Rogers Communications (RCI), Cable One (CABO), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), and Charter Communications (CHTR). These companies are all part of the "cable & other pay television services" industry.
Shaw Communications vs.
Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDA) and Shaw Communications (NYSE:SJR) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Liberty Broadband presently has a consensus target price of $145.40, suggesting a potential upside of 86.31%. Shaw Communications has a consensus target price of $40.50, suggesting a potential upside of 42.46%. Given Liberty Broadband's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Liberty Broadband is more favorable than Shaw Communications.
Liberty Broadband has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Shaw Communications. Liberty Broadband is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shaw Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
12.6% of Liberty Broadband shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.4% of Shaw Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.6% of Liberty Broadband shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Shaw Communications shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, Shaw Communications had 4 more articles in the media than Liberty Broadband. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Shaw Communications and 2 mentions for Liberty Broadband. Shaw Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Liberty Broadband's score of 0.04 indicating that Shaw Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Liberty Broadband has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shaw Communications has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty Broadband has a net margin of 128.92% compared to Shaw Communications' net margin of 13.57%. Liberty Broadband's return on equity of 14.08% beat Shaw Communications' return on equity.
Shaw Communications received 75 more outperform votes than Liberty Broadband when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.49% of users gave Liberty Broadband an outperform vote while only 57.99% of users gave Shaw Communications an outperform vote.
Summary
Liberty Broadband beats Shaw Communications on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SJR and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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.
Shaw Communications Competitors List
