Head-To-Head Review: Nexxen International (NASDAQ:NEXN) and Sound Group (NASDAQ:SOGP)

Sound Group (NASDAQ:SOGP) and Nexxen International (NASDAQ:NEXN) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Risk & Volatility

Sound Group has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nexxen International has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Sound Group and Nexxen International, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sound Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Nexxen International	0	1	4	0	2.80

Nexxen International has a consensus target price of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 105.01%. Given Nexxen International’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nexxen International is more favorable than Sound Group.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

1.6% of Sound Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% of Nexxen International shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.2% of Sound Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Sound Group and Nexxen International”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sound Group	$1.77 billion	0.01	-$17.84 million	N/A	N/A
Nexxen International	$365.48 million	1.52	-$21.49 million	$0.39	22.51

Sound Group has higher revenue and earnings than Nexxen International.

Profitability

This table compares Sound Group and Nexxen International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sound Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nexxen International	3.96%	7.49%	4.70%

Summary

Nexxen International beats Sound Group on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Sound Group

Sound Group Inc. operates as an audio-centric social and entertainment company. It focuses on building audio platform to connect and communicate. The company, through its product portfolio and in-house technologies, caters to user interest in audio entertainment and social networking. The company was formerly known as LIZHI INC. and changed its name to Sound Group Inc. in January 2024. Sound Group Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Singapore.

About Nexxen International

Nexxen International Ltd. provides end-to-end software platform that enables advertisers to reach publishers Israel. The company’s demand side platform (DSP) offers full-service and self-managed marketplace access to advertisers and agencies to execute their digital marketing campaigns in real time across various ad formats. Its sell supply side platform (SSP) provides access to data and a comprehensive product suite to drive inventory management and revenue optimization. The company also offers data management platform solution, which integrates DSP and SSP solutions enabling advertisers and publishers to use data from various sources in order to optimize results of their advertising campaigns. It serves ad buyers, advertisers, brands, agencies, and digital publishers in the United States, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company was formerly known as Tremor International Ltd and changed its name to Nexxen International Ltd. in January 2024. Nexxen International Ltd. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.