Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ:EEFT) & Neon Bloom (OTCMKTS:NBCO) Financial Comparison

Neon Bloom (OTCMKTS:NBCO) and Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ:EEFT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

91.6% of Euronet Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 11.2% of Euronet Worldwide shares are held by 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 current recommendations and price targets for Neon Bloom and Euronet Worldwide, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Neon Bloom	0	0	0	0	0.00
Euronet Worldwide	2	2	4	0	2.25

Euronet Worldwide has a consensus price target of $96.00, suggesting a potential upside of 34.96%. Given Euronet Worldwide’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Euronet Worldwide is more favorable than Neon Bloom.

Risk & Volatility

Neon Bloom has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its share price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Euronet Worldwide has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Neon Bloom and Euronet Worldwide”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Neon Bloom	$32.13 million	0.04	N/A	N/A	N/A
Euronet Worldwide	$4.24 billion	0.66	$309.50 million	$6.93	10.26

Euronet Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Neon Bloom.

Profitability

This table compares Neon Bloom and Euronet Worldwide’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Neon Bloom	N/A	N/A	N/A
Euronet Worldwide	7.33%	27.22%	5.65%

Summary

Euronet Worldwide beats Neon Bloom on 11 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Neon Bloom

Neon Bloom, Inc. is a principal investment firm specializing in acquisitions. The firm primarily invests in innovative agriculture and ancillary technology products and services across the globe. Neon Bloom, Inc was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

About Euronet Worldwide

Euronet Worldwide, Inc. provides payment and transaction processing and distribution solutions to financial institutions, retailers, service providers, and individual consumers worldwide. It operates through three segments: Electronic Fund Transfer Processing, epay, and Money Transfer. The Electronic Fund Transfer Processing segment provides electronic payment solutions, including automated teller machine (ATM) cash withdrawal and deposit services, ATM network participation, outsourced ATM and point-of-sale (POS) management solutions, credit and debit and prepaid card outsourcing, card issuing, and merchant acquiring services. It also offers ATM and POS currency conversion, ATM surcharge, advertising, customer relationship management, mobile top-up, bill payment, fraud management, foreign remittance and cardless payout, banknote recycling, and tax-refund services; and integrated electronic financial transaction software solutions for electronic payment and transaction delivery systems. The epay segment distributes and processes prepaid mobile airtime and other electronic payment products; and provides payment processing services for various prepaid products, cards, and services, as well as vouchers and physical gift fulfillment, and gift card distribution and processing services. This segment operates a network of approximately 821,000 POS terminals. The Money Transfer segment offers consumer-to-consumer and account-to-account money transfer, customers bill payment, check cashing, foreign currency exchange, mobile top-up, and cash management and foreign currency risk management services, as well as payment alternatives, such as money orders and prepaid debit cards. The company was formerly known as Euronet Services, Inc. and changed its name to Euronet Worldwide, Inc. in August 2001. Euronet Worldwide, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Leawood, Kansas.