LBTYK vs. LBTYA, LBRDK, LBRDA, ROKU, CABO, WBD, RCI, MAT, BFAM, and NCLH
Should you be buying Liberty Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty Global include Liberty Global (LBTYA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Roku (ROKU), Cable One (CABO), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), Rogers Communications (RCI), Mattel (MAT), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYK) and Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYA) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
46.1% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.2% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of Liberty Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of Liberty Global shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Liberty Global has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Global has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty Global presently has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 49.50%. Liberty Global has a consensus target price of $24.25, suggesting a potential upside of 38.49%. Given Liberty Global's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Liberty Global is more favorable than Liberty Global.
Liberty Global received 428 more outperform votes than Liberty Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.54% of users gave Liberty Global an outperform vote while only 60.28% of users gave Liberty Global an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Liberty Global had 2 more articles in the media than Liberty Global. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Liberty Global and 2 mentions for Liberty Global. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Liberty Global's score of 1.24 indicating that Liberty Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Summary
Liberty Global beats Liberty Global on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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