Head to Head Contrast: Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI) & Monarch Casino & Resort (NASDAQ:MCRI)

Monarch Casino & Resort (NASDAQ:MCRI) and Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Monarch Casino & Resort and Genius Sports, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Monarch Casino & Resort	0	4	2	1	2.57
Genius Sports	1	3	15	1	2.80

Monarch Casino & Resort presently has a consensus price target of $124.40, suggesting a potential upside of 8.80%. Genius Sports has a consensus price target of $11.25, suggesting a potential upside of 69.56%. Given Genius Sports’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Genius Sports is more favorable than Monarch Casino & Resort.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

62.4% of Monarch Casino & Resort shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Genius Sports shares are held by institutional investors. 26.3% of Monarch Casino & Resort shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of Genius Sports shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Monarch Casino & Resort has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genius Sports has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Monarch Casino & Resort and Genius Sports”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Monarch Casino & Resort	$561.96 million	3.65	$101.39 million	$6.24	18.32
Genius Sports	$669.49 million	2.44	-$111.58 million	($0.68)	-9.76

Monarch Casino & Resort has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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 Monarch Casino & Resort and Genius Sports’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Monarch Casino & Resort	20.40%	20.63%	15.79%
Genius Sports	-22.99%	-23.83%	-12.68%

Summary

Monarch Casino & Resort beats Genius Sports on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.