Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI – Get Free Report) and Monarch Casino & Resort (NASDAQ:MCRI – Get Free Report) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and risk.
Volatility and Risk
Genius Sports has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monarch Casino & Resort has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
81.9% of Genius Sports shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.4% of Monarch Casino & Resort shares are held by institutional investors. 16.6% of Genius Sports shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.3% of Monarch Casino & Resort shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Genius Sports | 2 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 2.75 |
| Monarch Casino & Resort | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2.57 |
Genius Sports currently has a consensus target price of $11.25, indicating a potential upside of 86.41%. Monarch Casino & Resort has a consensus target price of $124.40, indicating a potential upside of 5.83%. Given Genius Sports’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Genius Sports is more favorable than Monarch Casino & Resort.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Genius Sports and Monarch Casino & Resort”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Genius Sports | $669.49 million | 2.22 | -$111.58 million | ($0.68) | -8.88 |
| Monarch Casino & Resort | $561.96 million | 3.75 | $101.39 million | $6.24 | 18.84 |
Monarch Casino & Resort has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Genius Sports. Genius Sports is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monarch Casino & Resort, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Genius Sports and Monarch Casino & Resort’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Genius Sports | -22.99% | -23.83% | -12.68% |
| Monarch Casino & Resort | 20.40% | 20.63% | 15.79% |
Summary
Monarch Casino & Resort beats Genius Sports on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Genius Sports
Genius Sports Limited engages in the development and sale of technology-led products and services to the sports, sports betting, and sports media industries. It offers technology infrastructure for the collection, integration, and distribution of live data of sports leagues; streaming solutions comprising technology, automatic production, and distribution for sports to commercialize video footage of their games; and end-to-end integrity services to sports leagues, such as full-time active monitoring technology, which uses mathematical algorithms to identify and flag suspicious betting activity in global betting markets, as well as a full suite of online and offline educational and consultancy services. The company also provides live sports data collection; pre-game and in-game odds feeds; risk management services, including customer profiling, monitoring of incoming bets, automated acceptance and rejection of bets, and limit setting; live streaming services; creation, delivery, and optimization of digital marketing campaigns, such as data-driven personalized ad creative; and fan engagement widgets for digital publishers that offer live game statistics and betting-related content. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
About Monarch Casino & Resort
Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. engages in the ownership and operation of the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, a hotel and casino facility in Reno, Nevada, and the Monarch Black Hawk Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Reno, NV.
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