Head-To-Head Analysis: Innovation Beverage Group (IBG) versus Its Competitors

Innovation Beverage Group (NASDAQ:IBG) is one of 137 publicly-traded companies in the “Beverages” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Innovation Beverage Group to similar businesses based on the strength of its dividends, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Insider and Institutional 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 company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Innovation Beverage Group and its rivals, as reported 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	1273	4289	5727	228	2.43

As a group, “Beverages” companies have a potential upside of 13.77%. Given Innovation Beverage Group’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Innovation Beverage Group has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Innovation Beverage Group and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innovation Beverage Group	$2.77 million	-$6.19 million	-1.96
Innovation Beverage Group Competitors	$52.13 billion	$869.16 million	9.49

Innovation Beverage Group’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Innovation Beverage Group. Innovation Beverage Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk & Volatility

Innovation Beverage Group has a beta of 3.15, indicating that its stock price is 215% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innovation Beverage Group’s rivals have a beta of -0.20, indicating that their average stock price is 120% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Innovation Beverage Group and its rivals’ 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%

Summary

Innovation Beverage Group rivals 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.