Financial Contrast: Brand Engagement Network (BNAI) versus Its Competitors

Brand Engagement Network (NASDAQ:BNAI) is one of 260 publicly-traded companies in the “Technology Services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Brand Engagement Network to similar businesses based on the strength of its profitability, valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Volatility & Risk

Brand Engagement Network has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brand Engagement Network’s peers have a beta of -13.72, indicating that their average share price is 1,472% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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	N/A	-182.83%	-79.42%
Brand Engagement Network Competitors	-370.26%	-109.60%	-21.85%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

15.8% of Brand Engagement Network shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.7% of shares of all “Technology Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 62.9% of Brand Engagement Network shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.3% of shares of all “Technology Services” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Brand Engagement Network and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Brand Engagement Network	0	0	1	0	3.00
Brand Engagement Network Competitors	440	2048	4525	213	2.62

Brand Engagement Network currently has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1,686.25%. As a group, “Technology Services” companies have a potential upside of 22.80%. Given Brand Engagement Network’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Brand Engagement Network is more favorable than its peers.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Brand Engagement Network	$100,000.00	-$33.72 million	-0.39
Brand Engagement Network Competitors	$1.20 billion	$32.18 million	-11.38

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

Summary

Brand Engagement Network beats its peers on 7 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.