Financial Comparison: Bending Spoons (BSP) and Its Peers

Bending Spoons (NASDAQ:BSP) is one of 955 public companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Bending Spoons to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations for Bending Spoons and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bending Spoons	2	4	5	1	2.42
Bending Spoons Competitors	5697	21415	44628	1487	2.57

Bending Spoons currently has a consensus target price of $44.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.29%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 26.91%. Given Bending Spoons’ peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bending Spoons has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

42.0% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Bending Spoons shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Bending Spoons and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bending Spoons	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bending Spoons Competitors	-630.17%	17.49%	-9.06%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Bending Spoons and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bending Spoons	$1.31 billion	-$140,000.00	56.58
Bending Spoons Competitors	$1.85 billion	$384.41 million	110.11

Bending Spoons’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Bending Spoons. Bending Spoons 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.

Summary

Bending Spoons peers beat Bending Spoons on 8 of the 11 factors compared.

About Bending Spoons

Bending Spoons S.p.A. is a technology company. It acquires digital businesses, implements deep transformations and ongoing optimizations to sustainably expand earnings and reinvests in additional acquisitions, thereby continuing the compounding cycle. Bending Spoons S.p.A. is based in MILAN.