Reviewing Bending Spoons (BSP) and Its Peers

Bending Spoons (NASDAQ:BSP) is one of 957 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Bending Spoons to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, risk, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Bending Spoons and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bending Spoons	$1.31 billion	-$140,000.00	41.06
Bending Spoons Competitors	$1.80 billion	$386.83 million	107.04

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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets 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	5611	21233	44331	1469	2.57

Bending Spoons currently has a consensus price target of $44.00, suggesting a potential upside of 37.37%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 331.43%. Given Bending Spoons’ peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bending Spoons has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Insider & 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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	-629.58%	17.55%	-9.11%

Summary

Bending Spoons peers beat Bending Spoons on 9 of the 12 factors compared.

Bending Spoons Company Profile

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.