Financial Comparison: Telenet Group (OTCMKTS:TLGHF) versus GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group (NASDAQ:GLIBK)

Telenet Group (OTCMKTS:TLGHF) and GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group (NASDAQ:GLIBK) are both communication services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, dividends and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Telenet Group and GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Telenet Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group	2	0	0	0	1.00

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Telenet Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	$0.29	49.94
GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group	$1.05 billion	0.70	-$309.00 million	($10.71)	-1.92

Telenet Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group. GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telenet Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Telenet Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
GCI Liberty, Inc. – Series C GCI Group	-31.47%	12.74%	6.19%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

16.7% of Telenet Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

About Telenet Group

Telenet Group Holding NV provides video services to residential and business customers in Belgium and Luxembourg. The company offers high definition, pay television, and video-on-demand services; broadband Internet services, fixed-line, and mobile telephony services; voice, data, and Internet product and services; interconnection services; and value-added services, such as cloud, hosting, and security solutions. It also sells mobile handsets and set-top boxes; and provides advertising and production services, as well as product activation and installation services. The company serves small and medium enterprises, larger corporations, public, healthcare and educational institutions, and carrier customers that include international voice, data, and internet service providers. Telenet Group Holding NV was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium. Telenet Group Holding NV is a subsidiary of Liberty Global plc.

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.