Reviewing Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A (NASDAQ:LLYVA) and TELUS (NYSE:TU)

Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A (NASDAQ:LLYVA) and TELUS (NYSE:TU) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A and TELUS, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A	0	0	0	0	0.00
TELUS	0	6	1	0	2.14

TELUS has a consensus target price of $21.50, suggesting a potential upside of 30.74%. Given TELUS’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe TELUS is more favorable than Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

25.1% of Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.4% of TELUS shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of TELUS shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TELUS has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A and TELUS”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A	N/A	N/A	N/A	($3.12)	-30.30
TELUS	$20.42 billion	1.23	$724.69 million	$0.46	35.75

TELUS has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A. Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TELUS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A and TELUS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A	N/A	N/A	N/A
TELUS	4.67%	9.10%	2.59%

Summary

TELUS beats Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series A

Liberty Live Group operates in the media, communications, and entertainment industries primarily in North America and the United Kingdom. The company is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

About TELUS

TELUS Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides a range of telecommunications and information technology products and services in Canada. It operates through Technology Solutions and Digitally-Led Customer Experiences segments. The Technology Solutions segment offers a range of telecommunications products and services; network services; healthcare services; mobile technologies equipment; data services, such as internet protocol; television; hosting, managed information technology, and cloud-based services; software, data management, and data analytics-driven smart food-chain and consumer goods technologies; home and business security; healthcare software and technology solutions; and voice and other telecommunications services, as well as mobile and fixed voice and data telecommunications services and products. The Digitally-Led Customer Experiences segment provides digital customer experience and digital-enablement transformation solutions, including artificial intelligence and content management solutions. The company was formerly known as TELUS Communications Inc. and changed its name to TELUS Corporation in February 2005. TELUS Corporation was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.