Head-To-Head Survey: WEBTOON Entertainment (WBTN) and Its Peers

WEBTOON Entertainment (NASDAQ:WBTN) is one of 192 publicly-traded companies in the “Interactive Media & Services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare WEBTOON Entertainment to related companies based on the strength of its risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares WEBTOON Entertainment and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
WEBTOON Entertainment	$1.38 billion	-$345.93 million	-3.47
WEBTOON Entertainment Competitors	$13.72 billion	$3.48 billion	20.89

WEBTOON Entertainment’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than WEBTOON Entertainment. WEBTOON Entertainment 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.

Profitability

This table compares WEBTOON Entertainment and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
WEBTOON Entertainment	-25.09%	2.10%	1.60%
WEBTOON Entertainment Competitors	-349.35%	-22.57%	4.07%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for WEBTOON Entertainment and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
WEBTOON Entertainment	1	5	1	0	2.00
WEBTOON Entertainment Competitors	1437	5991	11522	441	2.57

WEBTOON Entertainment presently has a consensus target price of $10.88, indicating a potential upside of 19.17%. As a group, “Interactive Media & Services” companies have a potential upside of 37.26%. Given WEBTOON Entertainment’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe WEBTOON Entertainment has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

41.1% of shares of all “Interactive Media & Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of WEBTOON Entertainment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.0% of shares of all “Interactive Media & Services” companies are owned by 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.

Volatility and Risk

WEBTOON Entertainment has a beta of 2.65, meaning that its stock price is 165% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WEBTOON Entertainment’s peers have a beta of 1.88, meaning that their average stock price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

WEBTOON Entertainment peers beat WEBTOON Entertainment on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

About WEBTOON Entertainment

WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. operates a storytelling platform worldwide. The company’s platform allows a community of creators and users to discover, create, and share new content. Its platform offers stories primarily in two ways, including web-comics, a graphical comic-like medium; and web-novels, which are text-based stories. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. is a subsidiary of NAVER Corporation.