Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares (LBTYB) scored on five pillars from its reported financial statements, and ranked against 80 Communication Services companies.
Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares (LBTYB) scores 1.9 out of 10 as of , computed from its reported financial statements. That reads as low quality. The reading rests on predictability, and profitability is what holds it back.
One pillar, growth, is unscored because the filings behind it carry too little to judge. It is shown as a dash rather than a zero, and the overall score is the weighted average of what could be scored.
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The Quality Score for LBTYB stands at 1.9 out of 10 as of October 19, 2026, which puts Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares in the low quality band. Scores this low usually reflect thin margins, a stretched balance sheet or an erratic record, and the pillars below show which. It rolls Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares’s profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability into one number, each judged against the norms of its sector.
Set against 80 Communication Services companies, Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares lands at the 8th percentile, in the bottom quarter of the group. For reference, the middle of the group scores 4.6 and a company needs 6.0 to reach its top quarter, which leaves Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares well below the median.
Profitability scores 0.6 out of 10, which reads as weak. The median across 77 Communication Services companies is 3.7, so Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares is well below its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 7th percentile. Weak profitability means the business converts less of its sales and capital into profit than its peers, which can come from thin pricing power, high costs or a temporary squeeze.
Solvency scores 2.6 out of 10, which reads as weak. The median across 62 Communication Services companies is 4.8, so Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares is well below its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 25th percentile. Weak solvency means debt is heavy relative to earnings or cash flow, which makes the business more sensitive to interest rates and to any fall in profits.
Growth has no score for Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares. Fewer than half of the pillar’s metric weight could be computed from the reported statements, so it is drawn as a dash and left out of the overall rather than counted as a zero. For context, the median growth score across 64 Communication Services companies is 4.7. Growth needs at least three years of comparable annual statements, so a short or interrupted history leaves it blank.
On efficiency, Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares scores 1.6, a weak reading. Its peers have a median of 6.1 across 76 Communication Services companies, which places it well below them, at the 2nd percentile. A low efficiency score is worth reading alongside profitability: earnings that do not convert into cash are worth less than they look.
Predictability scores 3.2 out of 10, which reads as weak. The median across 80 Communication Services companies is 4.5, so Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares is below its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 21st percentile. When results are this uneven, the averages behind the other pillars hide a lot of movement, and a longer history tells more than the latest year.
Predictability at 3.2 is Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares’s best pillar and profitability at 0.6 its weakest. The 2.6 point gap between them is worth keeping in mind when reading the overall. Leading with predictability suits a steady compounder, even if the other pillars are less striking. Weak profitability can be cyclical, so it helps to know whether margins are at a low point or a long-run level.
Of everything that could lift Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares’s score, profitability matters most. Bringing it up to the 3.7 median of Communication Services companies would take the overall from 1.9 to roughly 2.9. With one pillar unscored, the overall rests on 80 of the 100 weight points, spread across the four pillars that could be measured (the full set is profitability 25, solvency 20, growth 20, efficiency 15, predictability 20).
For a fair comparison, start with companies of a similar size: the Communication Services companies below are nearest to Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares by market value, each scored on the same pillars.
How much profit the company generates from its capital and sales.
The company’s ability to service debt and meet its obligations.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are compounding.
How well assets and earnings convert into cash and output.
How stable and consistent results have been over time.
Each metric is scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks, where higher is better. Metrics roll up into five pillars, and the pillars combine into the overall score using the weights shown. Sector-sensitive metrics are judged relative to peers in the same sector.
This score is a systematic, backward-looking read of reported fundamentals. It does not judge valuation, management quality, competitive moat, or future prospects, and can be distorted by one-off items or unusual accounting. Treat it as a starting point, not a recommendation.
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On this reading Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares scores 1.9 out of 10, which reads as low quality. Its strongest pillar is predictability, its weakest is profitability. Quality is not the same as a good investment: the score says nothing about the price you would pay.
Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares ranks at the 8th percentile of the 80 Communication Services companies Lemma publishes a score for. The median there is 4.6 and the top quarter starts at 6.0, against Liberty Global Ltd. Class B Common Shares’s 1.9.
Five pillars, each scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks and then weighted into one overall reading: profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability. Everything comes from reported financials, and nothing comes from price, sentiment or forecasts.
This page last changed on October 19, 2026. The score moves with the financial statements, so the page changes when a new filing moves the reading rather than on a schedule. Live figures for LBTYB are in the app.
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