GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group (GLIBK) versus Its Peers Head-To-Head Analysis

GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group (NASDAQ:GLIBK) is one of 202 publicly-traded companies in the “Diversified Telecommunication Services” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group	$942.00 million	-$309.00 million	-2.30
GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group Competitors	$107.23 billion	$976.35 million	-192.96

GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group. GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group	2	0	0	0	1.00
GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group Competitors	1681	5140	7370	368	2.44

As a group, “Diversified Telecommunication Services” companies have a potential upside of 21.06%. Given GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Risk and Volatility

GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group has a beta of -1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 202% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group’s peers have a beta of -4.71, suggesting that their average stock price is 571% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group	-32.53%	11.56%	5.78%
GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group Competitors	-12.22%	-229.12%	-3.15%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

32.7% of shares of all “Diversified Telecommunication Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 19.7% of shares of all “Diversified Telecommunication Services” companies are held by company 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.

Summary

GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group peers beat GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group

GCI Liberty Inc. consists of its wholly owned subsidiary GCI. The company is communications provider, providing data, voice and managed services to consumer and business customers throughout Alaska. GCI Liberty Inc. is based in ENGLEWOOD, Colo.