Kura Sushi USA (NASDAQ:KRUS – Get Free Report) and Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares Kura Sushi USA and Genius Sports’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Kura Sushi USA | -0.65% | -0.18% | -0.09% |
| Genius Sports | -22.99% | -23.83% | -12.68% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent recommendations for Kura Sushi USA and Genius Sports, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Kura Sushi USA | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2.27 |
| Genius Sports | 2 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 2.74 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
65.5% of Kura Sushi USA shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Genius Sports shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Kura Sushi USA shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of Genius Sports shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility & Risk
Kura Sushi USA has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genius Sports has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Kura Sushi USA and Genius Sports”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Kura Sushi USA | $282.76 million | 2.08 | -$1.90 million | ($0.18) | -268.56 |
| Genius Sports | $669.49 million | 2.96 | -$111.58 million | ($0.68) | -11.82 |
Kura Sushi USA has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Genius Sports. Kura Sushi USA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genius Sports, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Genius Sports beats Kura Sushi USA on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Kura Sushi USA
Kura Sushi USA, Inc. operates technology-enabled Japanese restaurants in the United States. The company was formerly known as Kula Sushi USA, Inc. and changed its name to Kura Sushi USA, Inc. in October 2017. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Kura Sushi USA, Inc. is a subsidiary of Kura Sushi, Inc.
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.
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