Comparing Innovation Beverage Group (IBG) and Its Peers

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

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%

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 peers have a beta of -0.20, meaning that their average share price is 120% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

36.3% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held by institutional investors. 19.4% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations 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	4289	5727	228	2.43

As a group, “Beverages” companies have a potential upside of 13.42%. Given Innovation Beverage Group’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Innovation Beverage Group has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innovation Beverage Group	$2.77 million	-$6.19 million	-1.96
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	$52.13 billion	$869.16 million	9.61

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.