Critical Comparison: MetaWorks Platforms (OTCMKTS:MWRK) and NextPlay Technologies (NASDAQ:NXTP)

Profitability

This table compares NextPlay Technologies and MetaWorks Platforms’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NextPlay Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
MetaWorks Platforms	N/A	-249.65%	-157.91%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares NextPlay Technologies and MetaWorks Platforms”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NextPlay Technologies	$8.20 million	0.00	-$37.97 million	N/A	N/A
MetaWorks Platforms	$410,000.00	8.28	-$5.65 million	($0.08)	-0.45

MetaWorks Platforms has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NextPlay Technologies.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

3.0% of NextPlay Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.1% of MetaWorks Platforms shares are held by institutional investors. 24.5% of NextPlay Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

NextPlay Technologies has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MetaWorks Platforms has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

NextPlay Technologies beats MetaWorks Platforms on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NextPlay Technologies

NextPlay Technologies, Inc., a technology solutions company, provides games, in-game advertising, digital asset products and services, connected TV, and travel booking services to consumers and corporations in the United States, Puerto Rico, Europe, and Thailand. The company operates through three segments: Media, FinTech, and Travel. The Media segment provides HotPlay games studio, a game development studio that develops a range of casual games; HotPlay redemption mobile application, a digital wallet that is used to collect the HotPlay IGA rewards; HotPlay In game advertising and rewards platform, that enable advertisements and rewards to be inserted in game; goPlay platform, a gamification platform for users to compete against each other through tournaments and challenges, as well as a reward platform that rewards users for their continued loyalty and continuous game; and Zappware, a TV as a Service platform, which includes media source ingest, encoding and transcoding, packaging, protection, delivery, playback, and analytics that provide telco operators for their digital media processing, as well as a client side set top box and smart TV middleware platform, associated application framework and corresponding, and supporting content management system. The FinTech segment engages in the development of NextFinTech Platform, an integrated digital financial platform, which offers mobile banking, investments into alternative assets, and insurance to businesses and individuals. The Travel segment offers booking solutions for business and leisure; and travel technology solutions comprising alternative lodging rental properties under NextTrip ConNextions brand. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Sunrise, Florida.

About MetaWorks Platforms

MetaWorks Platforms, Inc. provides blockchain and Web3 development platform. It offers turnkey set of services for companies to develop and integrate blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies into their business operations. The company provides business development and technical services; blockchain and technology program management services; customer development services; business launch services; and post-business launch support services. The company was formerly known as CurrencyWorks Inc. and changed its name to MetaWorks Platforms, Inc. in August 2022. MetaWorks Platforms, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Fairfield, California.