Contrasting STUB (STUB) and Its Competitors

STUB (NYSE:STUB) is one of 186 public companies in the “Entertainment” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare STUB to related businesses based on the strength of its earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for STUB and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
STUB	2	7	5	0	2.21
STUB Competitors	1797	4402	9444	244	2.51

STUB presently has a consensus target price of $10.83, indicating a potential upside of 66.28%. As a group, “Entertainment” companies have a potential upside of 24.12%. Given STUB’s higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe STUB is more favorable than its peers.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares STUB and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
STUB	$1.75 billion	-$1.91 billion	-1.14
STUB Competitors	$4.17 billion	$76.31 million	12.73

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
STUB	-93.54%	-9.50%	-2.67%
STUB Competitors	8.87%	-62.58%	-3.30%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

35.8% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 31.0% of STUB shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.8% of shares of all “Entertainment” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

STUB peers beat STUB on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

About STUB

Stubhub Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides an online marketplace to buy and sell tickets for sports, concerts, theater, festivals and other live events. Stubhub Holdings Inc. is based in NEW YORK.