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Liberty Global Ltd. (LBTYA)

As-reported financials and SEC filings for Liberty Global Ltd. The latest annual period is FY2025. The latest reported quarter is Q2 FY2026. Financial statements come straight from the company’s EDGAR filings; valuation figures such as P/E and market cap use market data.

About Liberty Global Ltd.

Liberty Global Ltd. operates three main platforms: Liberty Telecom, Liberty Growth, and Liberty Services. Liberty Telecom provides broadband, video, and mobile communications services across Europe, serving approximately 80 million fixed and mobile connections. Liberty Growth invests in technology, media, sports, and infrastructure businesses, while Liberty Services offers technology, operational, and financial services to Liberty Global affiliates and third parties.

Snapshot

Revenue
$4.88B
Revenue growth (YoY)
12.4%
Net income
$-7.14B
Diluted EPS
$-20.86
Gross margin
Operating margin
Net margin
FCF margin
ROE
-71.8%
net income / fiscal-year-end equity
P/E
trailing when available, otherwise FY EPS
Market cap
$3.68B
Long-term debt / equity
0.78×
non-current term debt only

Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended December 31, 2025). P/E and market cap are derived from stored market prices, last retrieved on a rolling basis and typically within the past week.

What changed at Liberty Global

  • Revenue grew 12.4% to $4.9B in FY2025, after a 42.0% decline the year before.
  • Operating margin is now a 0.5% loss in FY2025, from 12.8% in FY2021.
  • Most recent quarter Q2 FY2026: revenue $1.2B, down 7.7% from Q2 FY2025.
  • Free cash flow was negative $132M in FY2025.
  • Net income turned to a $7.1B loss in FY2025, from a $1.6B profit in FY2024.

Computed from the as-reported figures in the statements below. A change we cannot state from filed figures is left out rather than estimated.

Peer comparison

Where Liberty Global’s fundamentals sit among the 216 Communication Services companies. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).

Revenue growth (YoY)+12.4%
71st percentile of 209
ROE-71.8%
17th percentile of 165
Long-term debt / equity0.78×
52nd percentile of 101
Short interest4.58d
63rd percentile of 216

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Percentiles describe where a figure sits among sector peers reporting it (100th = highest). They are position within a peer group, not a rating, and not investment advice. Short interest ranking uses days to cover from FINRA Consolidated Short Interest data; FINRA is the owner and source of that data, included at no additional charge.

Short interest

Total shares sold short as of each twice-monthly FINRA settlement. Rising short interest means more investors are positioned against the stock; days to cover estimates how many trading days of average volume that position represents.

Shares short
11.0M
settled 2026-08-14
Change vs prior
+7.5%
vs previous settlement
Days to cover
4.58
at avg daily volume
Avg daily volume
2.4M
FINRA reported
SettlementShares shortChangeDays to cover
2026-08-1411.0M+7.5%4.58
2026-07-3110.2M+11.8%3.62
2026-07-159.2M-0.5%5.08
2026-06-309.2M-0.3%3.91
2026-06-159.2M-4.7%5.51
2026-05-299.7M+1.6%6.49
2026-05-159.5M-14.3%4.89
2026-04-3011.1M+6.0%5.34

Source: FINRA Consolidated Short Interest. FINRA is the owner and source of the FINRA-supplied data, which is included at no additional charge for your own personal or professional use; republishing or redistributing it is not permitted. Settlement dates are shown; FINRA publishes each settlement about nine business days later, so the latest figure can be two to four weeks old. Not presented as a percentage of float. No FINRA endorsement of this product is implied. Not investment advice.

Income statement (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Revenue$4.88B$4.34B$7.49B$7.20B$10.31B
Gross profit$3.21B$2.89B$6.21B$6.13B$7.29B
Operating income$-23.3M$-60.1M$-313.8M$109.9M$1.32B
Net income$-7.14B$1.59B$-4.05B$1.47B$13.43B
Diluted EPS$-20.86$4.23$-9.52$2.96$23.59

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Balance sheet (as reported)

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Cash flow (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Operating cash flow$1.21B$2.03B$2.17B$2.84B$3.55B
Capital expenditure$1.34B$908.5M$921.9M$891.3M$1.41B
Free cash flow$-132.0M$1.12B$1.24B$1.95B$2.14B

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Quarterly trend (as reported)

QuarterRevenueRevenue YoYNet incomeDiluted EPS
Q2 FY2026$1.17B-7.7%$-365.1M
Q1 FY2026$1.27B8.8%$337.8M$0.96
Q4 FY2025$1.23B9.6%$-2.92B$-8.68
Q3 FY2025$1.21B12.9%$-90.7M$-0.27
Q2 FY2025$1.27B20.0%$-2.79B$-8.09
Q1 FY2025$1.17B7.3%$-1.34B$-3.84
Q4 FY2024$1.12B-41.5%$2.24B$5.78
Q3 FY2024$1.07B-42.3%$-1.43B$-3.95

Latest 8 reported quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR.

Company facts

ExchangeNasdaq
SectorCommunication Services
SIC industryCable & Other Pay Television Services
Latest annual periodFY2025 (ended December 31, 2025)
Latest reported quarterQ2 FY2026 (ended June 30, 2026)
Oldest indexed filing2019
SEC CIK1570585

Selected SEC filings

10-Q2026-07-24
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10-Q2026-05-01
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8-K2026-08-13
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8-K2026-08-06
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8-K2026-08-03
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8-K2026-07-28
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Data sourced from SEC EDGAR. Figures are as-reported and may be unaudited or restated; verify against the source filing before relying on them. Informational only. Not investment advice.