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WOW vs. LILAK, LILA, TV, GTN.A, ATUS, CABO, ATEX, GTN, SPIR, and AREN

Should you be buying WideOpenWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WideOpenWest include Liberty Global (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Grupo Televisa (TV), Gray Media (GTN.A), Altice USA (ATUS), Cable One (CABO), Anterix (ATEX), Gray Media (GTN), Spire Global (SPIR), and The Arena Group (AREN). 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 stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk, earnings and media sentiment.

In the previous week, WideOpenWest and WideOpenWest both had 2 articles in the media. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat WideOpenWest's score of 0.84 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
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
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

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

WideOpenWest has a net margin of -9.32% compared to Liberty Global's net margin of -17.85%. WideOpenWest's return on equity of -26.90% beat Liberty Global's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
WideOpenWest-9.32% -26.90% -3.83%
Liberty Global -17.85%-44.60%-6.19%

WideOpenWest presently has a consensus target price of $6.50, suggesting a potential upside of 58.34%. Liberty Global has a consensus target price of $10.27, suggesting a potential upside of 61.05%. Given Liberty Global's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Liberty Global is more favorable than WideOpenWest.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
WideOpenWest
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Liberty Global
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

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$630.90M0.56-$58.80M-$0.70-5.86
Liberty Global$4.46B0.29-$657M-$4.03-1.58

WideOpenWest has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Global has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

WideOpenWest beats Liberty Global on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding WOW and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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$350.90M$30.84B$8.20B$20.45B
Dividend YieldN/A3.20%3.17%3.72%
P/E Ratio-5.867.3920.8427.80
Price / Sales0.564.803.2948.54
Price / Cash2.305.9114.8218.22
Price / Book1.671.524.604.58
Net Income-$58.80M$3.13B$212.37M$982.91M
7 Day Performance-0.73%-1.51%38.43%1.24%
1 Month Performance-2.15%9.47%46.96%4.89%
1 Year Performance-19.51%30.50%18.81%14.21%

WideOpenWest Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WOW
WideOpenWest
2.8899 of 5 stars
$4.11
+1.4%
$6.50
+58.3%
-21.3%$350.90M$630.90M-5.861,320
LILAK
Liberty Global
2.658 of 5 stars
$6.22
+1.8%
$10.27
+65.1%
-27.9%$1.24B$4.44B-1.5410,000News Coverage
Positive News
LILA
Liberty Latin America
3.0868 of 5 stars
$6.10
+1.8%
$6.50
+6.6%
-29.5%$1.22B$4.44B-1.5110,000Positive News
TV
Grupo Televisa
3.3856 of 5 stars
$2.19
-3.9%
$3.87
+76.6%
-14.4%$1.21B$3.42B-2.7428,038
GTN.A
Gray Media
N/A$10.57
+2.7%
N/A+15.3%$1.07B$3.64B4.588,610News Coverage
ATUS
Altice USA
3.6059 of 5 stars
$2.13
flat
$2.75
+29.1%
+9.4%$996.20M$8.86B-6.2610,900
CABO
Cable One
4.8708 of 5 stars
$135.93
+4.0%
$309.25
+127.5%
-62.5%$765.01M$1.56B-54.162,817
ATEX
Anterix
3.2491 of 5 stars
$25.65
-0.1%
$67.00
+161.2%
-36.5%$479.66M$6.03M-40.7170
GTN
Gray Media
4.8585 of 5 stars
$4.54
+0.7%
$6.17
+35.8%
-3.9%$461.01M$3.60B1.979,502News Coverage
Gap Up
SPIR
Spire Global
2.2048 of 5 stars
$11.92
+3.4%
$18.20
+52.7%
+18.0%$370.47M$110.45M-3.43370
AREN
The Arena Group
N/A$6.20
-2.7%
N/A+732.1%$294.88M$128.78M-1.46360

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