Comparing BigBear.ai (BBAI) & The Competition

BigBear.ai (NYSE:BBAI) is one of 271 publicly-traded companies in the “IT Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare BigBear.ai to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and dividends.

Risk and Volatility

BigBear.ai has a beta of 3.37, indicating that its stock price is 237% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BigBear.ai’s peers have a beta of 2.16, indicating that their average stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

7.5% of BigBear.ai shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.4% of shares of all “IT Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of BigBear.ai shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of shares of all “IT Services” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares BigBear.ai and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
BigBear.ai	$127.67 million	-$293.91 million	-6.61
BigBear.ai Competitors	$3.24 billion	$227.67 million	-26.87

BigBear.ai’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than BigBear.ai. BigBear.ai is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares BigBear.ai and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BigBear.ai	-126.84%	-15.17%	-12.90%
BigBear.ai Competitors	-191.32%	-32.18%	-8.63%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for BigBear.ai and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BigBear.ai	1	2	1	0	2.00
BigBear.ai Competitors	1992	5656	9478	342	2.47

BigBear.ai currently has a consensus price target of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 84.05%. As a group, “IT Services” companies have a potential upside of 28.86%. Given BigBear.ai’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BigBear.ai is more favorable than its peers.

Summary

BigBear.ai peers beat BigBear.ai on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

BigBear.ai Company Profile

BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. provides artificial intelligence-powered decision intelligence solutions. It offers national security, supply chain management, and digital identity and biometrics solutions. The company also provides data ingestion, data enrichment, data processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and predictive visualization solutions and services. It serves nation defense and intelligence agencies, border protection, transportation security, manufacturing, distribution and logistics, travel, entertainment, and tourism sectors. The company is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.