Critical Contrast: MoneyHero (MNY) & Its Competitors

MoneyHero (NASDAQ:MNY) is one of 189 publicly-traded companies in the “Interactive Media & Services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare MoneyHero to similar companies based on the strength of its profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and dividends.

Risk and Volatility

MoneyHero has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MoneyHero’s peers have a beta of 1.89, meaning that their average share price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares MoneyHero and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
MoneyHero	$73.43 million	-$5.18 million	-1.88
MoneyHero Competitors	$12.69 billion	$3.55 billion	8.50

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for MoneyHero and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MoneyHero	2	0	0	0	1.00
MoneyHero Competitors	1412	6004	11516	444	2.57

As a group, “Interactive Media & Services” companies have a potential upside of 30.68%. Given MoneyHero’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MoneyHero has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

30.9% of MoneyHero shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.2% of shares of all “Interactive Media & Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 19.2% of MoneyHero shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.0% of shares of all “Interactive Media & Services” companies are owned by company 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.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MoneyHero	-14.85%	-21.04%	-10.59%
MoneyHero Competitors	-157.00%	-15.48%	4.09%

Summary

MoneyHero peers beat MoneyHero on 12 of the 13 factors compared.

About MoneyHero

MoneyHero Group Limited (NASDAQ:MNY) operates a digital personal finance platform serving consumers across Greater Southeast Asia. Through its online comparison websites and marketplaces, the company helps users research and compare financial products offered by banks, insurers and other financial institutions. Its product categories include credit cards, personal loans, insurance policies and other personal finance services. MoneyHero generally earns revenue by generating qualified customer leads, completed applications or other customer actions for its financial-provider partners, rather than by directly providing most of the financial products listed on its platforms.