Critical Comparison: Fusemachines (FUSE) vs. Its Peers

Fusemachines (NASDAQ:FUSE) is one of 274 public companies in the “IT Services” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Fusemachines to similar companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fusemachines	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fusemachines Competitors	-4,173.66%	-84.80%	-11.06%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Fusemachines and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Fusemachines	1	0	0	0	1.00
Fusemachines Competitors	1882	5485	9167	325	2.47

As a group, “IT Services” companies have a potential upside of 10.13%. Given Fusemachines’ peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Fusemachines has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Fusemachines and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Fusemachines	$7.64 million	-$930,000.00	-28.51
Fusemachines Competitors	$3.31 billion	$221.11 million	10.62

Fusemachines’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Fusemachines. Fusemachines 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.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

46.8% of Fusemachines shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.5% of shares of all “IT Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 31.8% of Fusemachines shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of shares of all “IT Services” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

Fusemachines has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fusemachines’ peers have a beta of 1.58, meaning that their average stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Fusemachines peers beat Fusemachines on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About Fusemachines

Fusemachines Inc. develops and delivers artificial intelligence (AI) as a service and machine learning software solutions. The company offers Fuse Anna which is an AI assistant for follow ups through daily reminders; and Fuse Prospector which is an artificial intelligence sales platform. Further, the company offers managed outbound services and AI as a service for big data processing, data management, and cloud analytics. Additionally, it offers Fusemachines AI fellowship program, which provides selected scholars from underserved communities with mentorship and resources to develop advanced skills in artificial intelligence and machine learning; as well as Fusemachines Academy, a learning platform to build and enhance skills. The company serves governments, financial institutions, and e-commerce companies. The company is based in New York, New York with an additional offices in Kathmandu, Nepal; Toronto, Canada; Kochi, India; Santo Domingo, Cuba.