Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI – Get Free Report) and Kura Sushi USA (NASDAQ:KRUS – Get Free Report) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Profitability
This table compares Genius Sports and Kura Sushi USA’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Genius Sports | -22.99% | -23.83% | -12.68% |
| Kura Sushi USA | -0.65% | -0.18% | -0.09% |
Risk & Volatility
Genius Sports has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kura Sushi USA has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Genius Sports | 2 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 2.74 |
| Kura Sushi USA | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2.27 |
Genius Sports currently has a consensus target price of $11.44, indicating a potential upside of 48.20%. Kura Sushi USA has a consensus target price of $69.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.31%. Given Genius Sports’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Genius Sports is more favorable than Kura Sushi USA.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
81.9% of Genius Sports shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Kura Sushi USA shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of Genius Sports shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Kura Sushi USA shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Genius Sports and Kura Sushi USA”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Genius Sports | $669.49 million | 2.84 | -$111.58 million | ($0.68) | -11.35 |
| Kura Sushi USA | $318.84 million | 1.93 | -$1.90 million | ($0.18) | -281.22 |
Kura Sushi USA has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Genius Sports. Kura Sushi USA 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 Kura Sushi USA on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Kura Sushi USA
Kura Sushi USA, Inc. operates technology-enabled Japanese restaurants in the United States. The company was formerly known as Kula Sushi USA, Inc. and changed its name to Kura Sushi USA, Inc. in October 2017. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Kura Sushi USA, Inc. is a subsidiary of Kura Sushi, Inc.
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