Analyzing Innovation Beverage Group (IBG) and The Competition

Innovation Beverage Group (NASDAQ:IBG) is one of 137 publicly-traded 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, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Innovation Beverage Group and its competitors, as provided 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	1275	4291	5735	229	2.43

As a group, “Beverages” companies have a potential upside of 12.06%. 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.

Volatility and Risk

Innovation Beverage Group has a beta of 3.15, meaning that its share 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 share price is 118% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innovation Beverage Group	$2.77 million	-$6.19 million	-2.00
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	$113.25 billion	$869.16 million	9.64

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.

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%

Institutional and Insider 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 insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

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

Innovation Beverage Group Company Profile

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.