WBD vs. CHTR, RCI, ROKU, LBRDA, LBRDK, LBTYK, LBTYA, CABO, LILAK, and LILA
Should you be buying Warner Bros. Discovery stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Warner Bros. Discovery include Charter Communications (CHTR), Rogers Communications (RCI), Roku (ROKU), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Global (LBTYK), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Cable One (CABO), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), and Liberty Latin America (LILA). These companies are all part of the "cable & other pay television services" industry.
Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) and Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Charter Communications received 749 more outperform votes than Warner Bros. Discovery when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.79% of users gave Charter Communications an outperform vote while only 44.32% of users gave Warner Bros. Discovery an outperform vote.
Charter Communications has a net margin of 8.50% compared to Charter Communications' net margin of -7.45%. Warner Bros. Discovery's return on equity of 31.42% beat Charter Communications' return on equity.
Charter Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Warner Bros. Discovery. Warner Bros. Discovery is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Charter Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
81.8% of Charter Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.0% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Charter Communications shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Charter Communications presently has a consensus price target of $356.47, suggesting a potential upside of 24.15%. Warner Bros. Discovery has a consensus price target of $13.16, suggesting a potential upside of 59.68%. Given Charter Communications' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Warner Bros. Discovery is more favorable than Charter Communications.
In the previous week, Warner Bros. Discovery had 13 more articles in the media than Charter Communications. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Warner Bros. Discovery and 7 mentions for Charter Communications. Warner Bros. Discovery's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Charter Communications' score of 0.49 indicating that Charter Communications is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Charter Communications has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Warner Bros. Discovery has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Charter Communications beats Warner Bros. Discovery on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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