Financial Review: Bending Spoons (BSP) vs. Its Peers

Bending Spoons (NASDAQ:BSP) is one of 954 public companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Bending Spoons to similar companies based on the strength of its valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

41.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Bending Spoons shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Bending Spoons and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bending Spoons	2	4	5	1	2.42
Bending Spoons Competitors	5714	21419	44677	1492	2.57

Bending Spoons currently has a consensus target price of $44.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.34%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 27.88%. Given Bending Spoons’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bending Spoons has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares Bending Spoons and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bending Spoons	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bending Spoons Competitors	-612.31%	21.01%	-8.89%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Bending Spoons and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bending Spoons	$1.31 billion	-$140,000.00	58.36
Bending Spoons Competitors	$1.79 billion	$385.13 million	111.21

Bending Spoons’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Bending Spoons. Bending Spoons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Bending Spoons competitors beat Bending Spoons on 9 of the 12 factors compared.

Bending Spoons Company Profile

Bending Spoons S.p.A. is a technology company. It acquires digital businesses, implements deep transformations and ongoing optimizations to sustainably expand earnings and reinvests in additional acquisitions, thereby continuing the compounding cycle. Bending Spoons S.p.A. is based in MILAN.