QRTEB vs. LBTYK, LBTYA, CABO, LILAK, LILA, ADEA, ATUS, AMCX, WOW, and AREN
Should you be buying Qurate Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Qurate Retail include Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Cable One (CABO), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Adeia (ADEA), Altice USA (ATUS), AMC Networks (AMCX), WideOpenWest (WOW), and The Arena Group (AREN). These companies are all part of the "cable & other pay television services" industry.
Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYK) and Qurate Retail (NASDAQ:QRTEB) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and valuation.
Liberty Global presently has a consensus price target of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 58.17%. Given Qurate Retail's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Liberty Global is more favorable than Qurate Retail.
Qurate Retail has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty Global. Qurate Retail 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 has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qurate Retail has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Qurate Retail received 26 more outperform votes than Liberty Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.78% of users gave Qurate Retail an outperform vote while only 60.28% of users gave Liberty Global an outperform vote.
46.1% of Liberty Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.3% of Qurate Retail shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of Liberty Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of Qurate Retail shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Qurate Retail has a net margin of -1.56% compared to Qurate Retail's net margin of -37.27%. Liberty Global's return on equity of 23.19% beat Qurate Retail's return on equity.
In the previous week, Liberty Global had 5 more articles in the media than Qurate Retail. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Liberty Global and 1 mentions for Qurate Retail. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Qurate Retail's score of 1.14 indicating that Qurate Retail is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Qurate Retail beats Liberty Global on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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