Liberty Broadband (LBRDK) Competitors

Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDK) and Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE:CHT) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Is LBRDK or CHT more profitable?

Liberty Broadband has a net margin of 78.07% compared to Chunghwa Telecom's net margin of 16.09%. Chunghwa Telecom's return on equity of 9.25% beat Liberty Broadband's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Liberty Broadband	78.07%	8.45%	4.92%
Chunghwa Telecom	16.09%	9.25%	6.88%

Do analysts recommend LBRDK or CHT?

Liberty Broadband currently has a consensus price target of $81.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.88%. Given Liberty Broadband's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Liberty Broadband is more favorable than Chunghwa Telecom.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Liberty Broadband	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Chunghwa Telecom	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the MarketBeat Community favor LBRDK or CHT?

Chunghwa Telecom received 24 more outperform votes than Liberty Broadband when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.35% of users gave Chunghwa Telecom an outperform vote while only 55.41% of users gave Liberty Broadband an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Liberty Broadband	Outperform Votes 256 55.41%	Underperform Votes 206 44.59%
Chunghwa Telecom	Outperform Votes 280 63.35%	Underperform Votes 162 36.65%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of LBRDK or CHT?

80.2% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are held by institutional investors. 10.8% of Liberty Broadband shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Chunghwa Telecom shares are held by company 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.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, LBRDK or CHT?

Chunghwa Telecom has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty Broadband. Liberty Broadband is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chunghwa Telecom, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Liberty Broadband	$981M	11.14	$688M	$5.43	14.09
Chunghwa Telecom	$7.17B	4.09	$1.21B	$1.46	25.87

Does the media prefer LBRDK or CHT?

In the previous week, Liberty Broadband had 6 more articles in the media than Chunghwa Telecom. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Liberty Broadband and 0 mentions for Chunghwa Telecom. Liberty Broadband's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Chunghwa Telecom's score of -0.05 indicating that Liberty Broadband is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Liberty Broadband	Positive
Chunghwa Telecom	Neutral

Which has more risk & volatility, LBRDK or CHT?

Liberty Broadband has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chunghwa Telecom has a beta of 0.2, meaning that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Liberty Broadband beats Chunghwa Telecom on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.