CABO vs. ROKU, LBRDA, LBRDK, LBTYK, LBTYA, LILAK, LILA, QRTEB, ADEA, and ATUS
Should you be buying Cable One stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cable One include Roku (ROKU), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Qurate Retail (QRTEB), Adeia (ADEA), and Altice USA (ATUS). These companies are all part of the "cable & other pay television services" industry.
Cable One (NYSE:CABO) and Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Cable One has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Roku has a beta of 1.92, indicating that its stock price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cable One has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Roku. Roku is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cable One, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cable One presently has a consensus price target of $590.83, indicating a potential upside of 57.67%. Roku has a consensus price target of $82.50, indicating a potential upside of 43.85%. Given Cable One's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cable One is more favorable than Roku.
Roku received 372 more outperform votes than Cable One when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.15% of users gave Cable One an outperform vote while only 57.75% of users gave Roku an outperform vote.
89.9% of Cable One shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.3% of Roku shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Cable One shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.0% of Roku shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cable One has a net margin of 15.50% compared to Roku's net margin of -15.64%. Cable One's return on equity of 12.76% beat Roku's return on equity.
In the previous week, Roku had 18 more articles in the media than Cable One. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Roku and 2 mentions for Cable One. Cable One's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Roku's score of 0.55 indicating that Cable One is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Cable One beats Roku on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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