Analyzing Bending Spoons (BSP) and The Competition

Bending Spoons (NASDAQ:BSP) is one of 957 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Bending Spoons to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and risk.

Profitability

This table compares Bending Spoons and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bending Spoons	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bending Spoons Competitors	-629.58%	17.48%	-9.11%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Bending Spoons and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bending Spoons	2	4	5	1	2.42
Bending Spoons Competitors	5604	21228	44331	1469	2.57

Bending Spoons currently has a consensus price target of $44.00, indicating a potential upside of 37.37%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 331.43%. Given Bending Spoons’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bending Spoons has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Bending Spoons and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bending Spoons	$1.31 billion	-$140,000.00	41.06
Bending Spoons Competitors	$1.81 billion	$386.83 million	106.55

Bending Spoons’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Bending Spoons. Bending Spoons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

42.0% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Bending Spoons shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Bending Spoons competitors beat Bending Spoons on 9 of the 12 factors compared.

About Bending Spoons

Bending Spoons S.p.A. is a technology company. It acquires digital businesses, implements deep transformations and ongoing optimizations to sustainably expand earnings and reinvests in additional acquisitions, thereby continuing the compounding cycle. Bending Spoons S.p.A. is based in MILAN.