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ROKU vs WOW
Side-by-side comparison of Roku Inc. (ROKU) and WideOpenWest Inc. (WOW): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both ROKU and WOW operate in Cable & Other Pay Television Services (Telecommunications), so they compete in similar markets.
- ROKU is the larger of the two at $18.24B, about 11.1x WOW ($1.65B).
- Over the past year, ROKU is up 55.3% and WOW is up 27.9% - ROKU leads by 27.4 points.
- ROKU has hit the wire 18 times in the past 4 weeks while WOW has been quiet.
- ROKU has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 12 for WOW).
- Company
- Roku Inc.
- WideOpenWest Inc.
- Price
- $123.61+1.16%
- $5.21+0.00%
- Market cap
- $18.24B
- $1.65B
- 1M return
- -2.48%
- +0.48%
- 1Y return
- +55.28%
- +27.89%
- Industry
- Cable & Other Pay Television Services
- Cable & Other Pay Television Services
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NYSE
- IPO
- 2017
- 2017
- News (4w)
- 18
- 0
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 12
Roku Inc.
Roku, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a TV streaming platform. The company operates in two segments, Platform and Player. Its platform allows users to discover and access various movies and TV episodes, as well as live sports, music, news, and others. As of December 31, 2020, the company had 51.2 million active accounts. It also provides digital and video advertising, content distribution, subscription, and billing services, as well as other commerce transactions, brand sponsorship and promotions, and audience development campaigns; and manufactures, sells, and licenses smart TVs under the Roku TV name. In addition, the company offers streaming players, and audio products and accessories under the Roku brand name; and sells branded channel buttons on remote controls. It provides its products and services through retailers and distributors, as well as directly to customers through its website in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, the Republic of Ireland, Mexico, Brazil, and other Latin American countries. Roku, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
WideOpenWest Inc.
WideOpenWest, Inc. provides high speed data, cable television, and digital telephony services to residential and business services customers in the United States. Its video services include basic cable services that comprise local broadcast television and local community programming; digital cable services; WOW! tv+ that offers traditional cable video and cloud DVR functionality, voice remote with Google Assistant, and Netflix integration along with access to various streaming services and apps through the Google Play Store; and ultra-video products, as well as offers commercial-free movies, TV shows, sports, and other special event entertainment programs. The company's telephony services consist of local and long-distance telephone services; business telephony and data services include fiber based, office-to-office metro Ethernet, session initiated protocol trunking, colocation infrastructure, cloud computing, managed backup, and recovery services. As of December 31, 2020, it served approximately 3.2 million home and business, and 850,600 customers in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The company was formerly known as WideOpenWest Kite, Inc. and changed its name to WideOpenWest, Inc. in March 2017. WideOpenWest, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Englewood, Colorado.
Latest ROKU
- President, Roku Media Collier Charles exercised 20,537 shares at a strike of $49.59 and sold $2,565,881 worth of shares (20,537 units at $124.94) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan (SEC Form 4)
- Marvell Technology and Flex Set to Join S&P 500; Others to Join S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600
- Morgan Stanley reiterated coverage on Roku with a new price target
- President, Roku Media Collier Charles sold $899,346 worth of shares (7,067 units at $127.26) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, converted options into 29,340 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 14,773 shares, increasing direct ownership by 97% to 15,200 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding obligation
- President, Subscriptions Fuchsberg Gilbert converted options into 10,322 shares, covered exercise/tax liability with 5,710 shares and sold $556,890 worth of shares (4,376 units at $127.26) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, increasing direct ownership by 0.46% to 51,099 units (SEC Form 4) (tax liability)
- Director Hunt Neil D converted options into 2,000 shares and sold $258,190 worth of shares (2,000 units at $129.09) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan (SEC Form 4)
- CFO & COO Jedda Dan converted options into 26,132 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 10,284 shares, increasing direct ownership by 22% to 86,963 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding tax)
- CEO and Chairman BOD Wood Anthony J. converted options into 20,940 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 8,241 shares, increasing direct ownership by 89% to 26,927 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax
- Pres, Devices, Prod, and Tech Ozgen Mustafa converted options into 16,150 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 6,357 shares, increasing direct ownership by 50% to 29,379 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax
- VP, CAO Banks Matthew C. converted options into 4,067 shares, covered exercise/tax liability with 2,018 shares and sold $69,484 worth of shares (546 units at $127.26) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, increasing direct ownership by 24% to 7,725 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax
Latest WOW
- SEC Form 15-12G filed by WideOpenWest Inc.
- SEC Form EFFECT filed by WideOpenWest Inc.
- WideOpenWest (WOW!) Announces Additional Executive Appointments to Lead Growth and Transformation Strategy
- Director Marcus Jeffrey returned $650,972 worth of shares to the company (125,187 units at $5.20), closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)
- Director Seskin Phil returned $947,866 worth of shares to the company (182,282 units at $5.20), closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)
- Director Bright Jill returned $1,023,506 worth of shares to the company (196,828 units at $5.20), closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)
- Director Bhow Gunjan returned $771,493 worth of shares to the company (148,364 units at $5.20), closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)
- Director Segrera Jose returned $267,119 worth of shares to the company (51,369 units at $5.20), closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)
- Director Crestview Partners Iii Gp, L.P. returned 31,856,414 shares to the company (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Customer Exper. Officer Schena Don was granted 75,974 shares and returned $1,497,766 worth of shares to the company (288,032 units at $5.20), closing all direct ownership in the company (SEC Form 4)