PARA vs. LBRDA, CETV, FOXA, FOX, PARAA, NXST, TGNA, TV, SBGI, and GTN.A
Should you be buying Paramount Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paramount Global include Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Central European Media Enterprises (CETV), FOX (FOXA), FOX (FOX), Paramount Global (PARAA), Nexstar Media Group (NXST), TEGNA (TGNA), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Sinclair (SBGI), and Gray Television (GTN.A). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDA) and Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARA) 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 profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Liberty Broadband received 309 more outperform votes than Paramount Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.35% of users gave Liberty Broadband an outperform vote while only 14.84% of users gave Paramount Global an outperform vote.
10.3% of Liberty Broadband shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.0% of Paramount Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.2% of Liberty Broadband shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Paramount Global shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Paramount Global has a consensus target price of $13.58, indicating a potential upside of 14.01%. Given Liberty Broadband's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Paramount Global is more favorable than Liberty Broadband.
Liberty Broadband has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Paramount Global. Paramount Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Broadband, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Liberty Broadband has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paramount Global has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty Broadband has a net margin of 87.75% compared to Liberty Broadband's net margin of -0.15%. Paramount Global's return on equity of 9.55% beat Liberty Broadband's return on equity.
In the previous week, Paramount Global had 13 more articles in the media than Liberty Broadband. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Paramount Global and 1 mentions for Liberty Broadband. Paramount Global's average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat Liberty Broadband's score of 0.90 indicating that Liberty Broadband is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Liberty Broadband beats Paramount Global on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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