Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX – Get Free Report) and Genius Sports (NYSE:GENI – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
Risk & Volatility
Tucows has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genius Sports has a beta of 1.87, meaning that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Tucows and Genius Sports’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Tucows | -25.99% | N/A | -9.05% |
| Genius Sports | -13.94% | -11.48% | -8.76% |
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Tucows | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Genius Sports | 0 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 3.05 |
Genius Sports has a consensus price target of $14.22, suggesting a potential upside of 11.50%. Given Genius Sports’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Genius Sports is more favorable than Tucows.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Tucows and Genius Sports”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Tucows | $362.27 million | 0.58 | -$109.86 million | ($8.92) | -2.13 |
| Genius Sports | $510.89 million | 5.37 | -$63.04 million | ($0.31) | -41.15 |
Genius Sports has higher revenue and earnings than Tucows. Genius Sports is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tucows, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
73.6% of Tucows shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Genius Sports shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.6% of Tucows shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of Genius Sports shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Genius Sports beats Tucows on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Tucows
Tucows Inc. provides network access, domain name registration, email, mobile telephony, and other Internet services in North America and Europe. It operates in three segments: Ting, Wavelo and Tucows Domains. The Ting segment provides fiber and fixed wireless internet services. The Wavelo segment offers individual developer tools, subscription, billing management, network orchestration, and provisioning services. This segment also provides billing solutions under Platypus brand. The Tucows Domains segment offers name registration, as well as value added services under OpenSRS, eNom, Ascio, EPAG, and Hover brands. The company was formerly known as Infonautics, Inc. and changed its name to Tucows Inc. in August 2001. Tucows Inc. was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
About Genius Sports
Genius Sports Limited engages in the development and sale of technology-led products and services to the sports, sports betting, and sports media industries. It offers technology infrastructure for the collection, integration, and distribution of live data of sports leagues; streaming solutions comprising technology, automatic production, and distribution for sports to commercialize video footage of their games; and end-to-end integrity services to sports leagues, such as full-time active monitoring technology, which uses mathematical algorithms to identify and flag suspicious betting activity in global betting markets, as well as a full suite of online and offline educational and consultancy services. The company also provides live sports data collection; pre-game and in-game odds feeds; risk management services, including customer profiling, monitoring of incoming bets, automated acceptance and rejection of bets, and limit setting; live streaming services; creation, delivery, and optimization of digital marketing campaigns, such as data-driven personalized ad creative; and fan engagement widgets for digital publishers that offer live game statistics and betting-related content. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
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