Comparing Fusemachines (FUSE) & Its Peers

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Fusemachines and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	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’ rivals stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fusemachines has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Volatility and Risk

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

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

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Fusemachines and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share 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’ rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Fusemachines. Fusemachines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Fusemachines and its rivals’ 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%

Summary

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

Fusemachines Company Profile

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.