LBTYB vs. LBTYK, LBTYA, LBRDK, LBRDA, ROKU, CABO, WBD, RCI, NCLH, and BFAM
Should you be buying Liberty Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Global include Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Roku (ROKU), Cable One (CABO), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Rogers Communications (RCI), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), and Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYK) and Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYB) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
Liberty Global has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Global has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
46.1% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.5% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of Liberty Global shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Liberty Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Liberty Global received 19 more outperform votes than Liberty Global when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.28% of users gave Liberty Global an outperform vote while only 58.72% of users gave Liberty Global an outperform vote.
Liberty Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Liberty Global presently has a consensus price target of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 54.46%. Given Liberty Global's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Liberty Global is more favorable than Liberty Global.
In the previous week, Liberty Global had 4 more articles in the media than Liberty Global. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Liberty Global and 1 mentions for Liberty Global. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Liberty Global's score of 0.00 indicating that Liberty Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Liberty Global beats Liberty Global on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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