Financial Survey: Genius Sports (GENI) vs. Its Peers

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

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%

Risk and Volatility

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

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

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Genius Sports and its peers revenue, earnings per share 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Genius Sports and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	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 presently has a consensus target price 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 possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Genius Sports is more favorable than its peers.

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.