Contrasting Innovation Beverage Group (IBG) & The Competition

Innovation Beverage Group (NASDAQ:IBG) is one of 139 public companies in the “Beverages” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Innovation Beverage Group to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Innovation Beverage Group and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Innovation Beverage Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	1268	4263	5699	223	2.43

As a group, “Beverages” companies have a potential upside of 19.96%. 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.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Innovation Beverage Group and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innovation Beverage Group	$2.77 million	-$6.19 million	-2.13
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	$9.47 billion	$856.56 million	11.12

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.

Volatility and Risk

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 -0.18, meaning that their average stock price is 118% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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	-9.17%	-40.48%	-0.98%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

36.6% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held by institutional investors. 19.0% of shares of all “Beverages” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Innovation Beverage Group competitors beat Innovation Beverage Group on 9 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.