Critical Comparison: ITV (OTC:ITVPY) & Liberty Latin America (NASDAQ:LILAK)

Liberty Latin America (NASDAQ:LILAK) and ITV (OTC:ITVPY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Liberty Latin America and ITV”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Liberty Latin America	$4.46 billion	0.20	-$73.60 million	($3.34)	-1.36
ITV	$4.50 billion	0.86	$261.22 million	N/A	N/A

ITV has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty Latin America.

Profitability

This table compares Liberty Latin America and ITV’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Liberty Latin America	-14.74%	-31.59%	-5.03%
ITV	N/A	N/A	N/A

Risk & Volatility

Liberty Latin America has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ITV has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

53.0% of Liberty Latin America shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of ITV shares are held by institutional investors. 9.7% of Liberty Latin America shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of ITV shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Liberty Latin America and ITV, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Liberty Latin America	0	1	2	0	2.67
ITV	0	0	0	0	0.00

Liberty Latin America currently has a consensus price target of $10.27, indicating a potential upside of 126.64%. Given Liberty Latin America’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Liberty Latin America is more favorable than ITV.

Summary

ITV beats Liberty Latin America on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Liberty Latin America

Liberty Latin America Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides fixed, mobile, and subsea telecommunications services. The company operates through C&W Caribbean, C&W Panama, Liberty Networks, Liberty Puerto Rico, and Liberty Costa Rico segments. It offers communications and entertainment services, including video, broadband internet, fixed-line, telephony, and mobiles services to residential and business customers; and business products and services that include enterprise-grade connectivity, data center, hosting, and managed solutions, as well as information technology solutions for small and medium enterprises, international companies, and governmental agencies. The company also operates a sub-sea and terrestrial fiber optic cable network that connects approximately 40 markets. It provides its services under the brands of C&W, Liberty Costa Rica, Liberty Communications, BTC, Flow, and Mas Móvil. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

About ITV

ITV plc, an integrated production, broadcasting, and streaming company, which creates, owns, and distributes content on various platforms worldwide. It operates through ITV Studios and Media & Entertainment segments. The ITV Studios segment creates and produces programs and formats that include sports, drama, entertainment, factual, and news for its own channels and other broadcasters. The segment also operates as an unscripted independent producer of content in the United States; and produces content for local broadcasters and international OTT platforms in Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark. In addition, this segment engages in licensing its finished programmes, formats, and third-party content internationally, as well as finances productions. The Media & Entertainment segment broadcasts and streams various contents on its family of free-to-air TV channels; and offers television advertising services. The company also delivers content through linear television broadcasting, as well as on the ITV Hub, BritBox UK, ITVX, catch up services on pay platforms, and through direct content deals. In addition, this segment offers online advertising, HD digital channel on pay platform, and ITV Premium subscription services. The company was founded in 1955 is based in London, the United Kingdom.