Analyzing Innovation Beverage Group (IBG) & The Competition

Innovation Beverage Group (NASDAQ:IBG) is one of 137 publicly-traded companies in the “Beverages” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Innovation Beverage Group to related companies based on the strength of its earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Innovation Beverage Group and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Innovation Beverage Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	1273	4286	5722	227	2.43

As a group, “Beverages” companies have a potential upside of 15.36%. Given Innovation Beverage Group’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Innovation Beverage Group has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Volatility & Risk

Innovation Beverage Group has a beta of 3.15, suggesting that its stock price is 215% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innovation Beverage Group’s peers have a beta of -0.19, suggesting that their average stock price is 119% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

36.3% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are owned by institutional investors. 19.4% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Innovation Beverage Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Innovation Beverage Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	-8.50%	-34.30%	0.16%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Innovation Beverage Group and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innovation Beverage Group	$2.77 million	-$6.19 million	-2.04
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	$113.20 billion	$869.16 million	9.69

Innovation Beverage Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Innovation Beverage Group. Innovation Beverage Group 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.

Summary

Innovation Beverage Group peers beat Innovation Beverage Group on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

About Innovation Beverage Group

Innovation Beverage Group (formerly Australian Boutique Spirits) is an award-winning distillery that produces a variety of brands in-house and imports global brands to sell exclusively to the Australian market through bevmart.com.au. It was recently recognized as the Australian Liqueur Distillery of the year by the Melbourne International Spirits Competition.