Reviewing Teads (TEAD) & The Competition

Teads (NASDAQ:TEAD) is one of 192 public companies in the “Interactive Media & Services” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Teads to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Volatility & Risk

Teads has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Teads’ competitors have a beta of 1.88, indicating that their average share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Teads and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Teads	1	1	1	0	2.00
Teads Competitors	1445	6024	11556	443	2.56

Teads currently has a consensus target price of $0.40, suggesting a potential upside of 120.99%. As a group, “Interactive Media & Services” companies have a potential upside of 34.01%. Given Teads’ higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Teads is more favorable than its competitors.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Teads	$571.30 million	-$517.07 million	-0.02
Teads Competitors	$13.12 billion	$3.48 billion	14.66

Teads’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Teads. Teads 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 Teads and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Teads	-73.38%	-222.41%	-9.22%
Teads Competitors	-350.34%	-20.63%	4.02%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

60.4% of Teads shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of shares of all “Interactive Media & Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.0% of Teads shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.0% of shares of all “Interactive Media & Services” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Teads competitors beat Teads on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

About Teads

Outbrain Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates an online content recommendation platform worldwide. It offers Outbrain Engage, a product suite for media partners that provides personalized feeds and data-driven recommendations, as well as a solution to maximize user engagement. The company’s Outbrain Engage solution also includes a web-based dashboard to manage and control various aspects of the platform, including content, formats, sources, frequency, and categories of ads delivered on their properties, as well as monetizes the content through customized data-driven advertising. It also provides Outbrain Amplify, a product suite for advertisers that provides an open web platform that helps users to connect with audiences on premium digital properties. The company’s Outbrain Amplify solution also provides advertisers with access to ad inventory that support various formats, including text and image, video, interactive carousel, app install, and other forms of direct response; and ads optimized for engagement. Outbrain Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, New York.