Head-To-Head Comparison: Genius Sports (GENI) vs. The Competition

Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI) is one of 382 publicly-traded companies in the “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Genius Sports to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Genius Sports and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Genius Sports	2	2	14	1	2.74
Genius Sports Competitors	3806	17282	25595	906	2.50

Genius Sports currently has a consensus price target of $10.76, suggesting a potential upside of 80.25%. As a group, “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” companies have a potential upside of 58.65%. Given Genius Sports’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Genius Sports is more favorable than its peers.

Volatility and Risk

Genius Sports has a beta of 1.95, indicating that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genius Sports’ peers have a beta of 1.66, indicating that their average stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Genius Sports and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Genius Sports	$669.49 million	-$111.58 million	-8.78
Genius Sports Competitors	$3.31 billion	$250.20 million	-155.59

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

Profitability

This table compares Genius Sports and its peers’ 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%
Genius Sports Competitors	2.31%	-40.03%	2.12%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

81.9% of Genius Sports shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.7% of shares of all “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” companies are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of Genius Sports shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.3% of shares of all “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Genius Sports beats its peers on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

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.