Critical Review: Mondee (MOND) and Its Rivals

Mondee (NASDAQ:MOND – Get Rating) is one of 35 public companies in the “Transportation services” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Mondee to related companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Mondee and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mondee	0	0	4	0	3.00
Mondee Competitors	104	905	1787	31	2.62

Mondee currently has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.00%. As a group, “Transportation services” companies have a potential upside of 3.19%. Given Mondee’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Mondee is more favorable than its peers.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mondee	$159.35 million	-$90.24 million	-7.59
Mondee Competitors	$3.92 billion	$226.84 million	-1.16

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

17.1% of Mondee shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.1% of shares of all “Transportation services” companies are held by institutional investors. 69.9% of Mondee shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.4% of shares of all “Transportation services” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mondee	-54.51%	N/A	-6.34%
Mondee Competitors	-3,212.28%	4.18%	-4.25%

Summary

Mondee peers beat Mondee on 7 of the 12 factors compared.

Mondee Company Profile

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Mondee Holdings, Inc. operates as a travel technology company in the leisure and corporate travel markets in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Travel Marketplace and SaaS Platform. The Travel Marketplace segment primarily engages in sale of airline tickets through its platform. The SAAS Platform segment offers corporate travel cost savings solutions through its technology platform. The company connects a network of 50,000 leisure travel advisors and gig economy workers to 500 airlines and approximately 1 million hotel and vacation rentals, packaged solutions, and ancillary offerings. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in the United States and Canada, and operations in India and Thailand.