Critical Contrast: Innovation Beverage Group (IBG) versus Its Rivals

Innovation Beverage Group (NASDAQ:IBG) is one of 137 public companies in the “Beverages” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Innovation Beverage Group to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Innovation Beverage Group and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Innovation Beverage Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	1273	4285	5722	226	2.43

As a group, “Beverages” companies have a potential upside of 16.73%. Given Innovation Beverage Group’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Innovation Beverage Group has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Innovation Beverage Group and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innovation Beverage Group	$2.77 million	-$6.19 million	-2.04
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	$113.20 billion	$869.16 million	9.52

Innovation Beverage Group’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Innovation Beverage Group. Innovation Beverage Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

36.3% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held by institutional investors. 19.4% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held 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.

Profitability

This table compares Innovation Beverage Group and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Innovation Beverage Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	-8.50%	-34.30%	0.16%

Risk and Volatility

Innovation Beverage Group has a beta of 3.15, meaning that its stock price is 215% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innovation Beverage Group’s competitors have a beta of -0.19, meaning that their average stock price is 119% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Innovation Beverage Group competitors beat Innovation Beverage Group on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

About Innovation Beverage Group

Innovation Beverage Group (formerly Australian Boutique Spirits) is an award-winning distillery that produces a variety of brands in-house and imports global brands to sell exclusively to the Australian market through bevmart.com.au. It was recently recognized as the Australian Liqueur Distillery of the year by the Melbourne International Spirits Competition.