RCI vs. CHTR, WBD, ROKU, LBRDA, LBRDK, LBTYK, LBTYA, CABO, LILAK, and LILA
Should you be buying Rogers Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rogers Communications include Charter Communications (CHTR), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), 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 Rogers Communications (NYSE:RCI) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Charter Communications currently has a consensus price target of $356.47, suggesting a potential upside of 25.83%. Rogers Communications has a consensus price target of $46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.94%. Given Rogers Communications' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Charter Communications is more favorable than Rogers Communications.
81.8% of Charter Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Rogers Communications shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Charter Communications shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of Rogers Communications shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Charter Communications received 380 more outperform votes than Rogers Communications when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.79% of users gave Charter Communications an outperform vote while only 56.67% of users gave Rogers Communications an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Charter Communications had 3 more articles in the media than Rogers Communications. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Charter Communications and 5 mentions for Rogers Communications. Charter Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Rogers Communications' score of 0.70 indicating that Rogers Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Charter Communications has a net margin of 8.50% compared to Charter Communications' net margin of 2.90%. Rogers Communications' return on equity of 31.42% beat Charter Communications' return on equity.
Charter Communications has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rogers Communications has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Charter Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Rogers Communications. Charter Communications is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rogers Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Charter Communications beats Rogers Communications on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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