Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (NASDAQ:RRGB – Get Free Report) and Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and valuation.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Genius Sports, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Red Robin Gourmet Burgers | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Genius Sports | 1 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 2.80 |
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers presently has a consensus target price of $8.33, suggesting a potential downside of 7.30%. Genius Sports has a consensus target price of $11.25, suggesting a potential upside of 77.56%. Given Genius Sports’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Genius Sports is more favorable than Red Robin Gourmet Burgers.
Profitability
This table compares Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Genius Sports’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Red Robin Gourmet Burgers | -2.55% | N/A | -2.65% |
| Genius Sports | -22.99% | -23.83% | -12.68% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
84.0% of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Genius Sports shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of Genius Sports shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Genius Sports”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Red Robin Gourmet Burgers | $1.19 billion | 0.14 | -$23.28 million | ($1.69) | -5.32 |
| Genius Sports | $790.23 million | 1.97 | -$111.58 million | ($0.68) | -9.32 |
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers has higher revenue and earnings than Genius Sports. Genius Sports is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility & Risk
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers has a beta of 2.49, suggesting that its share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genius Sports has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers beats Genius Sports on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, operates, and franchises casual-dining restaurants, in North America and one Canadian province. Its restaurants primarily offer burgers and pizza, appetizers, salads, soups, other entrees, desserts, wings, milkshakes, alcoholic and non-alcoholic specialty drinks, cocktails, wine, and beers. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Englewood, Colorado.
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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