CHTR vs. ROKU, LBRDA, LBTYA, CABO, LILA, ATUS, CMCSA, RCI, WBD, and RCL
Should you be buying Charter Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Charter Communications include Roku (ROKU), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Cable One (CABO), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Altice USA (ATUS), Comcast (CMCSA), Rogers Communications (RCI), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), and Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL).
Roku (NASDAQ:ROKU) and Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Charter Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Roku. Roku is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Charter Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Roku has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Charter Communications has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Roku had 9 more articles in the media than Charter Communications. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Roku and 17 mentions for Charter Communications. Roku's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Charter Communications' score of 0.49 indicating that Charter Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.3% of Roku shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of Charter Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.0% of Roku shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Charter Communications shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Roku currently has a consensus target price of $82.50, indicating a potential upside of 46.15%. Charter Communications has a consensus target price of $356.47, indicating a potential upside of 31.33%. Given Charter Communications' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Roku is more favorable than Charter Communications.
Charter Communications has a net margin of 8.50% compared to Charter Communications' net margin of -15.64%. Roku's return on equity of 31.42% beat Charter Communications' return on equity.
Charter Communications received 117 more outperform votes than Roku when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.79% of users gave Charter Communications an outperform vote while only 57.75% of users gave Roku an outperform vote.
Summary
Charter Communications beats Roku on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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