Contrasting Brand Engagement Network (BNAI) and Its Competitors

Brand Engagement Network (NASDAQ:BNAI) is one of 953 public companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Brand Engagement Network to related businesses based on the strength of its earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Brand Engagement Network and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Brand Engagement Network	1	0	0	0	1.00
Brand Engagement Network Competitors	5725	21440	44721	1492	2.57

As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 27.85%. Given Brand Engagement Network’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Brand Engagement Network has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Brand Engagement Network and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Brand Engagement Network	-2,356.26%	-145.56%	-62.22%
Brand Engagement Network Competitors	-620.53%	20.98%	-8.95%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Brand Engagement Network and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Brand Engagement Network	$524,514.00	-$8.62 million	-2.73
Brand Engagement Network Competitors	$1.91 billion	$385.17 million	110.30

Brand Engagement Network’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Brand Engagement Network. Brand Engagement Network is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Volatility and Risk

Brand Engagement Network has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brand Engagement Network’s peers have a beta of 1.26, indicating that their average share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

15.8% of Brand Engagement Network shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by institutional investors. 25.6% of Brand Engagement Network shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Brand Engagement Network peers beat Brand Engagement Network on 12 of the 13 factors compared.

Brand Engagement Network Company Profile

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.