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WOW vs. LILAK, LILA, NMAX, TV, ATUS, GOGO, GTN.A, CABO, GTN, and IHRT

Should you be buying WideOpenWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WideOpenWest include Liberty Global (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Newsmax (NMAX), Grupo Televisa (TV), Altice USA (ATUS), Gogo (GOGO), Gray Media (GTN.A), Cable One (CABO), Gray Media (GTN), and iHeartMedia (IHRT). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.

WideOpenWest vs. Its Competitors

WideOpenWest (NYSE:WOW) and Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LILAK) are both small-cap communication companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.

WideOpenWest has a net margin of -10.70% compared to Liberty Global's net margin of -26.61%. WideOpenWest's return on equity of -32.26% beat Liberty Global's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
WideOpenWest-10.70% -32.26% -4.31%
Liberty Global -26.61%-71.58%-9.23%

WideOpenWest has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Liberty Global. WideOpenWest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
WideOpenWest$630.90M0.70-$58.80M-$0.79-6.51
Liberty Global$4.46B0.35-$657M-$5.93-1.33

WideOpenWest has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Global has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Liberty Global had 2 more articles in the media than WideOpenWest. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Liberty Global and 2 mentions for WideOpenWest. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat WideOpenWest's score of 0.00 indicating that Liberty Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
WideOpenWest
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Liberty Global
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

WideOpenWest currently has a consensus target price of $5.85, indicating a potential upside of 13.81%. Liberty Global has a consensus target price of $7.85, indicating a potential downside of 0.63%. Given WideOpenWest's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe WideOpenWest is more favorable than Liberty Global.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
WideOpenWest
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.67
Liberty Global
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.67

87.8% of WideOpenWest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.0% of Liberty Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of WideOpenWest shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.7% of Liberty Global shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

WideOpenWest beats Liberty Global on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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.
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WOW vs. The Competition

MetricWideOpenWestCABLE TV IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$438.27M$24.51B$8.16B$21.48B
Dividend YieldN/A1.70%3.16%3.67%
P/E Ratio-6.513.9517.8929.66
Price / Sales0.703.456.0186.18
Price / Cash2.825.7014.2617.79
Price / Book2.091.194.874.63
Net Income-$58.80M$3.13B$255.96M$1.01B
7 Day Performance-0.10%-7.98%-1.12%-0.80%
1 Month Performance0.10%-9.24%-4.41%0.55%
1 Year Performance2.39%-17.54%31.70%13.03%

WideOpenWest Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WOW
WideOpenWest
1.2185 of 5 stars
$5.14
+0.6%
$5.85
+13.8%
+0.2%$438.27M$630.90M-6.511,320
LILAK
Liberty Global
0.8092 of 5 stars
$8.50
+0.7%
$7.85
-7.6%
-16.9%$1.69B$4.41B-1.4310,000
LILA
Liberty Latin America
2.5233 of 5 stars
$8.34
+0.8%
$6.50
-22.1%
-19.8%$1.65B$4.41B-1.4110,000
NMAX
Newsmax
N/A$13.08
+2.9%
$21.50
+64.4%
N/A$1.64B$171.02M0.00400
TV
Grupo Televisa
4.2434 of 5 stars
$2.54
flat
$4.70
+85.0%
-2.7%$1.41B$3.42B-3.3928,038
ATUS
Altice USA
3.6212 of 5 stars
$2.60
+4.0%
$3.00
+15.4%
+0.2%$1.17B$8.95B-4.4810,900
GOGO
Gogo
3.8242 of 5 stars
$8.86
+1.5%
$14.83
+67.4%
+35.7%$1.17B$444.71M221.50380News Coverage
Gap Up
GTN.A
Gray Media
N/A$11.69
+16.0%
N/A+39.5%$1.03B$3.64B7.748,610Gap Up
High Trading Volume
CABO
Cable One
3.9971 of 5 stars
$174.74
-2.1%
$279.25
+59.8%
-55.0%$1.00B$1.58B-1.982,817
GTN
Gray Media
4.7381 of 5 stars
$5.65
-0.2%
$6.88
+21.7%
-15.3%$577.81M$3.55B3.749,502
IHRT
iHeartMedia
1.858 of 5 stars
$3.19
+11.9%
$2.92
-8.6%
+32.5%$427.90M$3.85B-1.3110,100

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This page (NYSE:WOW) was last updated on 10/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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