WOW vs. LILAK, LILA, TV, GTN.A, ATUS, CABO, ATEX, GTN, SPIR, and AREN
Should you be buying WideOpenWest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WideOpenWest include Liberty Global (LILAK), Liberty Latin America (LILA), Grupo Televisa (TV), Gray Media (GTN.A), Altice USA (ATUS), Cable One (CABO), Anterix (ATEX), Gray Media (GTN), Spire Global (SPIR), and The Arena Group (AREN). These companies are all part of the "communication" industry.
WideOpenWest vs. Its Competitors
WideOpenWest (NYSE:WOW) and Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LILAK) are both small-cap communication companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk and valuation.
WideOpenWest has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Global has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
WideOpenWest currently has a consensus target price of $6.50, indicating a potential upside of 55.88%. Liberty Global has a consensus target price of $10.27, indicating a potential upside of 55.67%. Given WideOpenWest's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe WideOpenWest is more favorable than Liberty Global.
WideOpenWest has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Liberty Global. WideOpenWest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
87.8% of WideOpenWest shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.0% of Liberty Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of WideOpenWest shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.7% of Liberty Global shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
WideOpenWest has a net margin of -9.32% compared to Liberty Global's net margin of -17.85%. WideOpenWest's return on equity of -26.90% beat Liberty Global's return on equity.
In the previous week, WideOpenWest had 1 more articles in the media than Liberty Global. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for WideOpenWest and 1 mentions for Liberty Global. Liberty Global's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat WideOpenWest's score of 0.12 indicating that Liberty Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
WideOpenWest beats Liberty Global on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:WOW) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
