Contrasting Liberty Latin America (NASDAQ:LILA) & ITV (OTC:ITVPY)

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

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ITV	0	0	0	0	0.00
Liberty Latin America	1	2	0	0	1.67

Liberty Latin America has a consensus target price of $7.90, indicating a potential upside of 14.08%. Given Liberty Latin America’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Liberty Latin America is more favorable than ITV.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ITV	N/A	N/A	N/A
Liberty Latin America	-14.74%	-33.41%	-5.06%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

51.4% of ITV shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.5% of Liberty Latin America shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of ITV shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of Liberty Latin America shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ITV	$4.50 billion	0.74	$261.22 million	N/A	N/A
Liberty Latin America	$4.46 billion	0.31	-$73.60 million	($3.34)	-2.07

ITV has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty Latin America.

Risk and Volatility

ITV has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty Latin America has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

ITV beats Liberty Latin America on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.