Contrasting Bending Spoons (BSP) & The Competition

Bending Spoons (NASDAQ:BSP) is one of 954 public companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Bending Spoons to similar companies based on the strength of its dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and earnings.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Bending Spoons and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bending Spoons	$1.31 billion	-$140,000.00	58.06
Bending Spoons Competitors	$1.81 billion	$385.92 million	111.04

Bending Spoons’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Bending Spoons. Bending Spoons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Bending Spoons and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bending Spoons	2	4	5	1	2.42
Bending Spoons Competitors	5717	21424	44690	1492	2.57

Bending Spoons presently has a consensus target price of $44.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.84%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 26.93%. Given Bending Spoons’ peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bending Spoons has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Bending Spoons and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bending Spoons	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bending Spoons Competitors	-612.30%	20.88%	-8.99%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

41.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 19.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Bending Spoons peers beat Bending Spoons on 9 of the 12 factors compared.

About Bending Spoons

Bending Spoons S.p.A. is a technology company. It acquires digital businesses, implements deep transformations and ongoing optimizations to sustainably expand earnings and reinvests in additional acquisitions, thereby continuing the compounding cycle. Bending Spoons S.p.A. is based in MILAN.