Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI – Get Free Report) and NextTrip (NASDAQ:NTRP – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
81.9% of Genius Sports shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.8% of NextTrip shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of Genius Sports shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 40.0% of NextTrip shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings for Genius Sports and NextTrip, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Genius Sports | 1 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 2.80 |
| NextTrip | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Genius Sports currently has a consensus price target of $11.25, indicating a potential upside of 74.01%. NextTrip has a consensus price target of $7.75, indicating a potential upside of 510.24%. Given NextTrip’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NextTrip is more favorable than Genius Sports.
Risk and Volatility
Genius Sports has a beta of 1.91, meaning that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextTrip has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Genius Sports and NextTrip’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Genius Sports | -22.99% | -23.83% | -12.68% |
| NextTrip | -319.76% | -275.12% | -113.56% |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Genius Sports and NextTrip”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Genius Sports | $790.23 million | 2.02 | -$111.58 million | ($0.68) | -9.51 |
| NextTrip | $4.82 million | 4.01 | -$15.91 million | ($1.27) | -1.00 |
NextTrip has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Genius Sports. Genius Sports is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NextTrip, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Genius Sports beats NextTrip on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Genius Sports
Genius Sports Limited engages in the development and sale of technology-led products and services to the sports, sports betting, and sports media industries. It offers technology infrastructure for the collection, integration, and distribution of live data of sports leagues; streaming solutions comprising technology, automatic production, and distribution for sports to commercialize video footage of their games; and end-to-end integrity services to sports leagues, such as full-time active monitoring technology, which uses mathematical algorithms to identify and flag suspicious betting activity in global betting markets, as well as a full suite of online and offline educational and consultancy services. The company also provides live sports data collection; pre-game and in-game odds feeds; risk management services, including customer profiling, monitoring of incoming bets, automated acceptance and rejection of bets, and limit setting; live streaming services; creation, delivery, and optimization of digital marketing campaigns, such as data-driven personalized ad creative; and fan engagement widgets for digital publishers that offer live game statistics and betting-related content. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
About NextTrip
NextTrip, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of travel technology solutions in the United States. The company offers NXT2.0, a booking engine technology platform, which provides travel distributors access to an inventory. It is also involved in the provision of online leisure travel agency services for booking hotels, flights, and curated vacations. The company was formerly known as Sigma Additive Solutions, Inc. and changed its name to NextTrip, Inc. in March 2024. NextTrip, Inc. is based in Sunrise, Florida.
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