Reviewing Innovation Beverage Group (IBG) and Its Competitors

Innovation Beverage Group (NASDAQ:IBG) is one of 139 publicly-traded companies in the “Beverages” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Innovation Beverage Group to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk and earnings.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Innovation Beverage Group and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innovation Beverage Group	$2.77 million	-$6.19 million	-2.14
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	$8.37 billion	$856.56 million	9.40

Innovation Beverage Group’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Innovation Beverage Group. Innovation Beverage Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Innovation Beverage Group and its rivals, 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	1271	4271	5706	225	2.43

As a group, “Beverages” companies have a potential upside of 19.01%. Given Innovation Beverage Group’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Innovation Beverage Group has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

36.6% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held by institutional investors. 19.0% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

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

Profitability

This table compares Innovation Beverage Group and its rivals’ 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	-9.16%	-40.49%	-0.98%

Summary

Innovation Beverage Group rivals beat Innovation Beverage Group on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Innovation Beverage Group Company Profile

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.