
A steady mid-cap income stock trading at a discounted valuation.
Mkt Cap
$3.86B
P/E
—
PEG
0.33
P/B
0.41
Dividend
—
ROE
-48.0%
About the business
Liberty Global Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides broadband internet, video, fixed-line telephony, and mobile communications services to residential and business customers in Europe. It offers intelligent WiFi and broadband internet services, such as ONE Connect, which enables fast and flexible introductions of new hardware and services, as well as cloud-to-cloud open API integration; Smart Security that provides network security, safe browsing and fraud prevention measures; Smart Home, which provides enhanced entertainment and home automation and security services; and Connect Box, an intelligent WiFi and telephony gateway. The company provides various tiers of digital video programming and audio services, as well as digital video recorders and multimedia home gateway systems; Horizon 5, a cloud-based, multi-screen entertainment platform that combines linear television, including recording and replay features and video-on-demand services; Replay TV, a multimedia gateway service; video-on-demand that provides subscribers with access to a broad library of movies and television series; Horizon Go, an online mobile app; and channels, including general entertainment, sports, movies, series, documentaries, lifestyles, news, adult, children, and ethnic and foreign channels. In addition, it offers postpaid and prepaid mobile services; circuit-switched telephony services; and personal call manager, unified messaging, and multiple lines for additional fees. Further, the company offers business services comprising voice, advanced data, video, wireless, cloud-based services, and mobile and fixed-mobile convergence services to small businesses, and medium and large enterprises, as well as on a wholesale basis to other operators. It operates in Belgium, Ireland, Slovakia, and internationally. Liberty Global Ltd. was founded in 2004 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Who would buy LBTYK?
Consensus 9/100 · Mixed · Investors are split.
Endorses
· 2 frameworksP/B < 1.5 0.41× clears "< 1.50×".
Payout Ratio < 70% 0.0% clears "< 70.0%".
Rejects
· 3 frameworks3 insiders sold $1.1M on a discretionary basis. Discretionary selling carries more signal than planned disposals, but insiders sell for many non-thesis reasons (taxes, diversification, life events) — do not over-read it. Over the 6M window, insiders are net buyers by 1,263,339 shares.
In Prism's context
Insider selling is worth flagging but insiders sell for many non-thesis reasons. Read alongside the framework verdict (Fails criteria).
| Insider | Role | Type | Date | Shares | Avg price | Value | Own |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WALDRON JASON R | Officer | Open-market sell | May 5, 2026 | 14,751 | $11.62 | $171K | Indirect |
| FRIES MICHAEL T | Chief Executive Officer | Award / grant | May 1, 2026 | 398,082 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| RODRIGUEZ ENRIQUE | Chief Technology Officer | Transaction | May 1, 2026 | 65,842 | — | — | Indirect |
| WALDRON JASON R | Officer | Transaction | May 1, 2026 | 22,801 | — | — | Indirect |
| SALVATO ANDREA | Officer | Transaction | May 1, 2026 | 68,407 | — | — | Direct |
| BRACKEN CHARLES HENRY ROWLAND | Chief Financial Officer | Transaction | May 1, 2026 | 71,256 | — | — | Direct |
| HALL BRYAN H | General Counsel | Transaction | May 1, 2026 | 48,454 | — | — | Direct |
| FRIES MICHAEL T | Chief Executive Officer | Option exercise | May 1, 2026 | 185,522 | $11.77 | $2.18M | Direct |
| GOULD PAUL A | Director | Open-market sell | Mar 20, 2026 | 20,000 | $11.49 | $230K | Direct |
| GOULD PAUL A | Director | Open-market sell | Mar 19, 2026 | 30,000 | $11.75 | $353K | Direct |
| FRIES MICHAEL T | Chief Executive Officer | Award / grant | Mar 13, 2026 | 86,485 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| SALVATO ANDREA | Officer | Award / grant | Mar 13, 2026 | 23,587 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| BRACKEN CHARLES HENRY ROWLAND | Chief Financial Officer | Award / grant | Mar 13, 2026 | 24,570 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| HALL BRYAN H | General Counsel | Award / grant | Mar 13, 2026 | 16,708 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| RODRIGUEZ ENRIQUE | Chief Technology Officer | Award / grant | Mar 13, 2026 | 20,835 | $0.00 | $0 | Indirect |
| WALDRON JASON R | Officer | Award / grant | Mar 13, 2026 | 7,863 | $0.00 | $0 | Indirect |
| SALVATO ANDREA | Officer | Award / grant | Mar 6, 2026 | 32,942 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| BRACKEN CHARLES HENRY ROWLAND | Chief Financial Officer | Award / grant | Mar 6, 2026 | 37,649 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| HALL BRYAN H | General Counsel | Award / grant | Mar 6, 2026 | 25,883 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| RODRIGUEZ ENRIQUE | Chief Technology Officer | Award / grant | Mar 6, 2026 | 178,462 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| WALDRON JASON R | Officer | Award / grant | Mar 6, 2026 | 14,118 | $0.00 | $0 | Direct |
| RODRIGUEZ ENRIQUE | Chief Technology Officer | Transaction | Feb 27, 2026 | 21,314 | — | — | Indirect |
| SALVATO ANDREA | Officer | Transaction | Feb 27, 2026 | 2,466 | — | — | Direct |
| BRACKEN CHARLES HENRY ROWLAND | Chief Financial Officer | Transaction | Feb 27, 2026 | 2,445 | — | — | Direct |
| HALL BRYAN H | General Counsel | Transaction | Feb 27, 2026 | 4,225 | — | — | Direct |
| GREEN RICHARD R | Director | Award / grant | Dec 31, 2025 | 1,394 | $11.04 | $15K | Direct |
| BRACKEN CHARLES HENRY ROWLAND | Chief Financial Officer | Open-market sell | Dec 8, 2025 | 33,220 | $11.18 | $372K | Indirect |
Insider activity from Yahoo Finance (quoteSummary: insiderTransactions + netSharePurchaseActivity). Cached 6 hours. · Insiders hold 14.2% of shares outstanding.
Net 6M: +1,263,339 sh
Price history
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What this means: A significant rerating — the valuation-sensitive frameworks below will have tightened since this move.
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Sign in to run this simulationLBTYK: 48% estimated probability of outperforming over the next 12M window. 1 of 6 signal families negative (low confidence). Strongest support: 59% below fair value. Main risk to monitor: ROE -48% (weak).
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P/B 0.41× · FCF yield -17.6%
59% below fair value
Indicative only. Probabilities are model-implied weights for stress-testing — not forecasts.
A turnaround takes hold: margin recovers toward peer averages, revenue stabilises, and the market re-prices the asset value rather than the running earnings.
No deterioration, no surprise re-acceleration. 4% operating margin and 9% top-line growth chug along; the multiple slowly converges to the central fair-value estimate.
Sector: Communication Services. MENA-aware investors can sanity-check whether the US name is offering value relative to regional peers.
| Metric | LBTYK | GCC median | MENA median | Global ex-US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (TTM) | — | 14.2× | — | 13.5× |
| P/B | 0.41× | 2.10× | — | 2.00× |
| Dividend yield | — | 4.40% | — | 4.00% |
| ROE | -48.0% |
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P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/A
PEG Ratio
0.33
P/B Ratio
0.41
EPS Growth
N/A
Revenue Growth
8.8%
Debt / Equity
0.96
Net Cash / Share
$-49.23
Return on Equity
-48.0%
Gross Margin
66.0%
Operating Margin
4.4%
FCF / Share
$-4.53
Current Ratio
1.11
ROE > 20% is -48.0% — fails "> 20.0%".
Debt/Equity < 0.5 is 0.96 — fails "< 0.50".
ROE > 15% is -48.0% — fails "> 15.0%".
Trades materially below the fair-value range — historically a tailwind for forward returns.
Returns are sub-cost-of-capital; quality bar not met.
Leverage is high relative to coverage — balance-sheet risk on the table.
Price trend is unremarkable — neither tailwind nor headwind.
Behavioural read is mixed — some accumulation, some distribution.
Recent miss and / or risk patterns weigh on the catalyst path.
Among 98 historical setups with similar Prism Score and signal-agreement profiles, 50% beat the benchmark over the next 12 months, with average excess return of +0.1% / yr.
ROE -48% · Op margin 4%
D/E 0.96 · CR 1.11
Net selling — 5 insiders
2 tracked holders · peak 18.5%
Buyback runway via FCF
56% through 52w range
EPS — · Rev 9%
Already-thin margins compress further on input-cost or pricing pressure; revenue softens; the market questions whether the current earnings power is structural or one-off. Multi-year drawdown plausible.
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| 13.0% |
Institutional Own.
77.6%
Insider Own.
14.2%
Dividend Yield
N/A
Book Value / Share
$28.11
Superinvestor ownership
Held by 2 tracked superinvestors · peak weight 8.9%
David Abrams
Abrams Capital Management · Q4 2025
Wally Weitz
Weitz Investment Management · Q4 2025
Weights reflect each investor's latest 13F or factsheet snapshot. Data lags real time by 45+ days.