Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C (NASDAQ:LLYVK – Get Free Report) and Warner Music Group (NASDAQ:WMG – Get Free Report) are both communication services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability and risk.
Volatility & Risk
Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Warner Music Group has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C and Warner Music Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Warner Music Group | 0 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 2.76 |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C and Warner Music Group”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 C | N/A | N/A | N/A | ($4.53) | -24.03 |
| Warner Music Group | $6.71 billion | 1.99 | $365.00 million | $1.26 | 20.36 |
Warner Music Group has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C. Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Warner Music Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C and Warner Music Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Warner Music Group | 9.20% | 85.50% | 7.00% |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
60.4% of Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.9% of Warner Music Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Warner Music Group shares are held 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.
Summary
Warner Music Group beats Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C on 12 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Liberty Media Corporation – Liberty Live Series C
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 Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group Corp. operates as a music entertainment company in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and internationally. It operates through Recorded Music and Music Publishing segments. The Recorded Music segment is involved in the discovery and development of recording artists, as well as related marketing, promotion, distribution, sale, and licensing of music created by such recording artists; markets its music catalog through compilations and reissuances of previously released music and video titles, as well as previously unreleased materials; and conducts its operation primarily through a collection of record labels, such as Warner Records and Atlantic Records, as well as Asylum, Big Beat, Canvasback, East West, Erato, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Roadrunner, Sire, Spinnin’ Records, Warner Classics, and Warner Music Nashville. This segment markets, distributes, and sells music and video products to retailers and wholesale distributors; independent labels to retail and wholesale distributors; and various distribution centers and ventures, as well as retail outlets, online physical retailers, streaming services, and download services. The Music Publishing segment owns and acquires rights to approximately one million musical compositions comprising pop hits, American standards, folk songs, and motion picture and theatrical compositions. Its catalog includes approximately 150,000 songwriters and composers; and various genres, including pop, rock, jazz, classical, country, R&B, hip-hop, rap, reggae, Latin, folk, blues, symphonic, soul, Broadway, electronic, alternative, and gospel. This segment also administers the music and soundtracks of various third-party television and film producers and studios. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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