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The latest 13F regulatory filings that disclose the buying and selling of stocks among hedge funds have recently been released. As is always the case, the filings reveal some interesting moves among the world's best investors.

Liberty Global shares have had a relatively subdued past 12 months, underperforming U.S. telecoms peers in the process. Liberty's European telecoms businesses are facing a tough operating environment, shedding fixed-line subscribers while inflation weighs on margins. These shares look deeply undervalued on a rough sum-of-the-parts basis, with the market's implied multiple for the telecoms businesses representing a noticeable discount to comparable peers.

Liberty Global's price rises will kick-in in the second half of the year. Share buybacks are accelerating and extremely accretive at current prices. The share prices can return a 30% CAGR (or much more) to patient investors.

The owners of All3Media (ALLMD.UL), Britain's largest independent TV production company, are exploring options that include cashing out on their joint venture in a deal worth more than 1 billion pounds ($1.26 billion), three people familiar with the matter said.

Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ:LBTYA ) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call May 10, 2023 9:00 AM ET Company Participants Mike Fries - Chief Executive Officer Charlie Bracken - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jeroen Hoencamp - Chief Executive Officer, VodafoneZiggo Lutz Schüler - Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Media André Krause - Chief Executive Officer, Sunrise Conference Call Participants Robert Grindle - Deutsche Bank James Ratcliffe - Evercore ISI Ulrich Rathe - Societe Generale Polo Tang - UBS James Ratzer - New Street Research Steve Malcolm - Redburn Matthew Harrigan - The Benchmark Company Maurice Patrick - Barclays David Wright - Bank of America Carl Murdock-Smith - Berenberg Georgios Ierodiaconou - Citigroup Operator Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Liberty Global's First Quarter 2023 Investor Call.

Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYA) has announced that it plans to launch a voluntary and conditional public takeover bid to take out minority shareholders in Telenet Group through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYA) Belgium, sending Telenet's shares more than a third higher.  The broadband, video and mobile communications services company explained that it has been the controlling shareholder of Telenet since February 2007, and currently owns just over 59% of Telenet's outstanding issued share capital.

BT Openreach's pending wholesale price cuts to internet service providers (ISPs) are “desperate and premature” according to Mike Fries, chair of Virgin Media O2 owner Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYA). Dubbed Equinox 2, BT Openreach is due to reduce its wholesale costs in April to encourage broadband providers like Sky, TalkTalk and Vodafone to move to high-speed full-fibre broadband.

Liberty Global plc (NASDAQ:LBTYA ) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call February 23, 2023 9:30 AM ET Company Participants Mike Fries - Chief Executive Officer Charlie Bracken - Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer André Krause - Chief Executive Officer, Sunrise Lutz Schüler - Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Media Rick Westerman - Senior Vice President of Investor Relations Conference Call Participants Sam McHugh - BNP Exane James Ratcliffe - Evercore Maurice Patrick - Barclays Robert Grindle - Deutsche Bank Luis Sanchez-Lecaroz - Credit Suisse Polo Tang - UBS Steve Malcolm - Redburn Carl Murdock-Smith - Berenberg Operator Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Liberty Global Fourth Quarter 2022 Investor Call.

Liberty Global (NASDAQ:LBTYA), the owner of Virgin Media O2 and 5 % of Vodafone, is mulling a takeover of full-fibre alternative broadband provider Trooli for up to £100mln, according to recent reports. Trooli, which services fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) high-speed broadband infrastructure across the south of England, has been seeking buyers as part of a broader trend of consolidation in the cramped altnet sector.