Financial Analysis: Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI) and Clover Leaf Capital (NASDAQ:CLOE)

Clover Leaf Capital (NASDAQ:CLOE) and Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.

Volatility & Risk

Clover Leaf Capital has a beta of 0.07, meaning that its stock price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genius Sports has a beta of 1.98, meaning that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Clover Leaf Capital and Genius Sports’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Clover Leaf Capital	N/A	N/A	-9.57%
Genius Sports	-15.84%	-14.11%	-10.63%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

18.5% of Clover Leaf Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Genius Sports shares are held by institutional investors. 81.2% of Clover Leaf Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of Genius Sports shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Clover Leaf Capital and Genius Sports, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Clover Leaf Capital	0	0	0	0	0.00
Genius Sports	0	0	9	0	3.00

Genius Sports has a consensus price target of $10.39, suggesting a potential upside of 14.54%. Given Genius Sports’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Genius Sports is more favorable than Clover Leaf Capital.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Clover Leaf Capital and Genius Sports”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Clover Leaf Capital	N/A	N/A	-$1.05 million	($0.23)	-54.35
Genius Sports	$412.98 million	5.04	-$85.53 million	($0.32)	-28.34

Clover Leaf Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Genius Sports. Clover Leaf Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genius Sports, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Genius Sports beats Clover Leaf Capital on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Clover Leaf Capital

Clover Leaf Capital Corp. does not have significant operations. The company focuses on effecting a merger, stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, and other business combination with one or more businesses. It intends to acquire companies operating in the cannabis industry. The company was incorporated in 2021 and is based in Miami, Florida.

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.