Financial Contrast: Bending Spoons (BSP) vs. Its Competitors

Bending Spoons (NASDAQ:BSP) is one of 956 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Bending Spoons to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

42.3% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by institutional investors. 19.8% of shares of all “Software” companies 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 and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bending Spoons	$3.34 billion	-$140,000.00	42.40
Bending Spoons Competitors	$1.82 billion	$385.17 million	111.25

Bending Spoons has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its competitors. 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.

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	-629.41%	17.48%	-9.11%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Bending Spoons and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bending Spoons	2	4	5	1	2.42
Bending Spoons Competitors	5622	21272	44375	1478	2.57

Bending Spoons presently has a consensus target price of $44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.05%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 326.23%. Given Bending Spoons’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bending Spoons has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Summary

Bending Spoons competitors beat Bending Spoons on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

About Bending Spoons

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.