Analyzing Snail (SNAL) & Its Rivals

Snail (NASDAQ:SNAL) is one of 184 public companies in the “Entertainment” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Snail to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Snail	-8.83%	-15.49%	-13.52%
Snail Competitors	11.06%	-25.84%	-2.42%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Snail and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Snail	1	1	1	0	2.00
Snail Competitors	1881	4514	9639	256	2.51

As a group, “Entertainment” companies have a potential upside of 16.18%. Given Snail’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Snail has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Snail	$81.23 million	-$27.24 million	-1.65
Snail Competitors	$4.13 billion	$73.91 million	-1.11

Snail’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Snail. Snail 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.

Volatility & Risk

Snail has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Snail’s peers have a beta of 1.00, meaning that their average share price is 0% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.4% of Snail shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.0% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are held by institutional investors. 66.8% of Snail shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.6% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Snail peers beat Snail on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

About Snail

Snail, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNAL) is a global developer and publisher of interactive digital entertainment. Through its subsidiaries, including Snail Games USA, the company creates, publishes and distributes video games for personal computers, consoles and mobile devices. The company is best known for its involvement with the ARK franchise, including ARK: Survival Evolved , an action-adventure survival game. Snail’s broader portfolio has included games such as Bellwright , Dark and Light and PixARK , along with other internally developed and third-party titles.