WBD vs. CHTR, RCI, ROKU, LBRDA, LBRDK, LBTYK, LBTYA, CABO, LILAK, and LILA
Should you be buying Warner Bros. Discovery stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Warner Bros. Discovery include Charter Communications (CHTR), Rogers Communications (RCI), 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.
Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) and Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Charter Communications received 749 more outperform votes than Warner Bros. Discovery when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.79% of users gave Charter Communications an outperform vote while only 44.32% of users gave Warner Bros. Discovery an outperform vote.
60.0% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of Charter Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Warner Bros. Discovery shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Charter Communications shares are owned 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 has a net margin of 8.50% compared to Warner Bros. Discovery's net margin of -7.45%. Charter Communications' return on equity of 31.42% beat Warner Bros. Discovery's return on equity.
Warner Bros. Discovery has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Charter Communications has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Warner Bros. Discovery had 13 more articles in the media than Charter Communications. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Warner Bros. Discovery and 7 mentions for Charter Communications. Charter Communications' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Warner Bros. Discovery's score of 0.49 indicating that Charter Communications is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Charter Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Warner Bros. Discovery. Warner Bros. Discovery is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Charter Communications, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Warner Bros. Discovery presently has a consensus price target of $13.16, suggesting a potential upside of 59.68%. Charter Communications has a consensus price target of $356.47, suggesting a potential upside of 24.15%. Given Warner Bros. Discovery's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Warner Bros. Discovery is more favorable than Charter Communications.
Summary
Charter Communications beats Warner Bros. Discovery on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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