Comparing Brand Engagement Network (NASDAQ:BNAI) and Super League Enterprise (NASDAQ:SLE)

Super League Enterprise (NASDAQ:SLE) and Brand Engagement Network (NASDAQ:BNAI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Super League Enterprise and Brand Engagement Network, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Super League Enterprise	0	0	2	0	3.00
Brand Engagement Network	0	0	1	0	3.00

Super League Enterprise presently has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 346.10%. Brand Engagement Network has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 640.74%. Given Brand Engagement Network’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Brand Engagement Network is more favorable than Super League Enterprise.

Risk & Volatility

Super League Enterprise has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brand Engagement Network has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

2.1% of Super League Enterprise shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.8% of Brand Engagement Network shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Super League Enterprise shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 62.9% of Brand Engagement Network shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Super League Enterprise and Brand Engagement Network’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Super League Enterprise	-110.58%	-351.16%	-124.48%
Brand Engagement Network	N/A	-171.70%	-60.01%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Super League Enterprise and Brand Engagement Network”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Super League Enterprise	$25.08 million	0.33	-$30.33 million	($5.61)	-0.12
Brand Engagement Network	N/A	N/A	-$6.88 million	N/A	N/A

Brand Engagement Network has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Super League Enterprise.

Summary

Brand Engagement Network beats Super League Enterprise on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Super League Enterprise

Super League Enterprise, Inc. creates and publishes content and media solutions across immersive platforms in the United States and internationally. The company offers access to audiences who gather in immersive digital spaces to socialize, play, explore, collaborate, shop, learn, and create. It also provides a range of development, distribution, monetization, and optimization capabilities designed to engage users through dynamic and energized programs. Its proprietary cloud-based platform offers dynamic media technology; metaverse game experience and tournament technology; and fully remote production and livestream broadcast technology. In addition, the company operates Minecraft server world for more casual players on consoles and tablets. Further, it sells on-platform media and analytics products, and influencer marketing campaign sales to third-party brands and agencies; game development and custom game experiences within its owned and affiliate game worlds; and production, curation and distribution of entertainment content for its network of digital channels and media and entertainment partner channels. The company was formerly known as Super League Gaming, Inc. and changed its name to Super League Enterprise, Inc. in September 2023. Super League Enterprise, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

About Brand Engagement Network

Brand Engagement Network, Inc. provides conversational AI assistants. The company offers security-focused, multimodal communication, and human-like assistants. Its AI assistants are built on proprietary natural language processing, anomaly detection, multisensory awareness, sentiment, and environmental analysis, as well as real-time individuation and personalization capabilities. It serves the automotive, healthcare, and other industries through direct sales force and channel partners. Brand Engagement Network, Inc. was formerly known as Blockchain Exchange Network Inc. and changed its name to Brand Engagement Network, Inc. in April 2023. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Jackson, Wyoming.