IHRT vs. LILA, ATUS, LILAK, TV, GTN.A, ATEX, SPIR, GTN, WOW, and VOCL
Should you be buying iHeartMedia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iHeartMedia include Liberty Latin America (LILA), Altice USA (ATUS), Liberty Latin America (LILAK), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Gray Television (GTN.A), Anterix (ATEX), Spire Global (SPIR), Gray Television (GTN), WideOpenWest (WOW), and Creatd (VOCL). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
iHeartMedia vs.
iHeartMedia (NASDAQ:IHRT) and Liberty Latin America (NASDAQ:LILA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, iHeartMedia had 2 more articles in the media than Liberty Latin America. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for iHeartMedia and 2 mentions for Liberty Latin America. Liberty Latin America's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat iHeartMedia's score of 0.94 indicating that Liberty Latin America is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
iHeartMedia currently has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.58%. Liberty Latin America has a consensus target price of $8.65, suggesting a potential upside of 35.58%. Given Liberty Latin America's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Liberty Latin America is more favorable than iHeartMedia.
Liberty Latin America has higher revenue and earnings than iHeartMedia. Liberty Latin America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iHeartMedia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Liberty Latin America has a net margin of -13.02% compared to iHeartMedia's net margin of -27.04%. iHeartMedia's return on equity of 0.00% beat Liberty Latin America's return on equity.
93.9% of iHeartMedia shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.5% of Liberty Latin America shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of iHeartMedia shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Liberty Latin America shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Liberty Latin America received 268 more outperform votes than iHeartMedia when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.87% of users gave Liberty Latin America an outperform vote while only 35.62% of users gave iHeartMedia an outperform vote.
iHeartMedia has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Latin America has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Liberty Latin America beats iHeartMedia on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:IHRT) was last updated on 1/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
