fuboTV (NYSE:FUBO) & Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYK) Head to Head Analysis

fuboTV (NYSE:FUBO) and Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYK) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for fuboTV and Liberty Global, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
fuboTV	0	3	2	1	2.67
Liberty Global	0	0	0	0	0.00

fuboTV presently has a consensus target price of $4.6250, suggesting a potential upside of 27.76%. Given fuboTV’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe fuboTV is more favorable than Liberty Global.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

39.3% of fuboTV shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.1% of Liberty Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of fuboTV shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of Liberty Global shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares fuboTV and Liberty Global’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
fuboTV	5.50%	-20.81%	-5.41%
Liberty Global	-60.38%	-22.64%	-10.77%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares fuboTV and Liberty Global”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
fuboTV	$1.62 billion	0.76	-$172.25 million	$0.26	13.92
Liberty Global	$4.34 billion	0.91	$1.59 billion	($9.77)	-1.19

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

Volatility and Risk

fuboTV has a beta of 2.28, suggesting that its stock price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Global has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

fuboTV beats Liberty Global on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About fuboTV

fuboTV, Inc. engages in providing subscription to sports, news, and entertainment content. It offers its services through streaming devices and on television, mobile phones, tablets, and computers. The company was founded by David Gandler, Alberto Horihuela Suarez, and Sung Ho Choi on February 20, 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

About Liberty Global

Liberty Global Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides broadband internet, video, fixed-line telephony, and mobile communications services to residential and business customers. It offers value-added broadband services, such as WiFi features, security, anti-virus, firewall, spam protection, smart home services, online storage solutions, and web spaces; and Connect Box that delivers in-home Wi-Fi service. The company provides various tiers of digital video programming and audio services, as well as digital video recorders and multimedia home gateway systems; Horizon 5, a cloud-based, multi-screen entertainment platform that combines linear television, including recording and replay features and video-on-demand services; Horizon Go, an online mobile app; and channels, including general entertainment, sports, movies, series, documentaries, lifestyles, news, adult, children, and ethnic and foreign channels. In addition, it offers postpaid and prepaid mobile services; circuit-switched telephony services; and personal call manager, unified messaging, and a second or third phone line at an incremental cost. Further, the company offers business services comprising voice, advanced data, video, wireless, cloud-based services, and mobile and converged fixed-mobile services to small or home offices, small businesses, and medium and large enterprises, as well as on a wholesale basis to other operators. It operates in Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland, Slovakia, and internationally. Liberty Global Ltd. was founded in 2004 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.