Head-To-Head Contrast: Playtech (PYTCF) & Its Competitors

Playtech (OTCMKTS:PYTCF) is one of 385 publicly-traded companies in the “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Playtech to related businesses based on the strength of its valuation, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Playtech	N/A	N/A	10.41
Playtech Competitors	$3.63 billion	$245.62 million	10.82

Playtech’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Playtech. Playtech 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for Playtech and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Playtech	1	1	2	0	2.25
Playtech Competitors	3664	16762	24764	859	2.50

As a group, “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” companies have a potential upside of 79.34%. Given Playtech’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Playtech has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Dividends

Playtech pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Playtech pays out 45.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.4% and pay out 45.0% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

29.1% of Playtech shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.8% of shares of all “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” companies are held by institutional investors. 21.9% of shares of all “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Playtech	N/A	N/A	N/A
Playtech Competitors	-9.44%	-36.77%	1.90%

Summary

Playtech competitors beat Playtech on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

Playtech Company Profile

Playtech plc, a technology company, provides gambling software, services, content, and platform technologies worldwide. The company offers technologies across various product verticals, including live casino, sports, bingo, virtual sports, and poker. It also owns the intellectual property rights and licenses the software; provides digital marketing and advertising, consulting and online technical support, data mining processing, turnkey, live game, and video stream services; and operates betting shops. In addition, the company designs, develops, and sells software. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Douglas, the Isle of Man.