Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI – Get Free Report) and NextTrip (NASDAQ:NTRP – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
Risk & Volatility
Genius Sports has a beta of 1.91, meaning that its stock price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextTrip has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Genius Sports and NextTrip’s 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% |
| NextTrip | -319.76% | -275.12% | -113.56% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Genius Sports and NextTrip, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Genius Sports | 1 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 2.80 |
| NextTrip | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Genius Sports presently has a consensus price target of $11.25, suggesting a potential upside of 72.41%. NextTrip has a consensus price target of $7.75, suggesting a potential upside of 617.73%. Given NextTrip’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NextTrip is more favorable than Genius Sports.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Genius Sports and NextTrip”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Genius Sports | $790.23 million | 2.03 | -$111.58 million | ($0.68) | -9.60 |
| NextTrip | $3.72 million | 4.42 | -$15.91 million | ($1.27) | -0.85 |
NextTrip has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Genius Sports. Genius Sports is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NextTrip, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
81.9% of Genius Sports shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.8% of NextTrip shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of Genius Sports shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 40.0% of NextTrip shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Genius Sports beats NextTrip on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About NextTrip
NextTrip, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of travel technology solutions in the United States. The company offers NXT2.0, a booking engine technology platform, which provides travel distributors access to an inventory. It is also involved in the provision of online leisure travel agency services for booking hotels, flights, and curated vacations. The company was formerly known as Sigma Additive Solutions, Inc. and changed its name to NextTrip, Inc. in March 2024. NextTrip, Inc. is based in Sunrise, Florida.
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