Analyzing Madison Square Garden Entertainment (NYSE:MSGE) and Beamr Imaging (NASDAQ:BMR)

Madison Square Garden Entertainment (NYSE:MSGE) and Beamr Imaging (NASDAQ:BMR) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, dividends and earnings.

Volatility and Risk

Madison Square Garden Entertainment has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beamr Imaging has a beta of 3.69, indicating that its stock price is 269% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Madison Square Garden Entertainment and Beamr Imaging”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Madison Square Garden Entertainment	$959.27 million	1.71	$144.30 million	$2.74	14.73
Beamr Imaging	$3.06 million	N/A	-$3.35 million	N/A	N/A

Madison Square Garden Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than Beamr Imaging.

Profitability

This table compares Madison Square Garden Entertainment and Beamr Imaging’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Madison Square Garden Entertainment	13.49%	-1,070.57%	8.58%
Beamr Imaging	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Madison Square Garden Entertainment and Beamr Imaging, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Madison Square Garden Entertainment	0	1	4	0	2.80
Beamr Imaging	0	0	0	0	0.00

Madison Square Garden Entertainment presently has a consensus target price of $43.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.57%. Given Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Madison Square Garden Entertainment is more favorable than Beamr Imaging.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

96.9% of Madison Square Garden Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.7% of Beamr Imaging shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.3% of Madison Square Garden Entertainment shares are owned by company 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.

Summary

Madison Square Garden Entertainment beats Beamr Imaging on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Madison Square Garden Entertainment

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. engages in the provision of entertainment services. Its portfolio of venues includes The Garden, Radio City Music Hall, the Beacon Theatre, The Theater at Madison Square, and The Chicago Theatre. The company was founded in 1879 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

About Beamr Imaging

Beamr Imaging Ltd. provides video encoding, transcoding, and optimization solutions in the United States, Israel, and internationally. It offers a suite of video compression software encoder solutions, including Beamr 4 H.264, Beamr 4X H.264 content adaptive, Beamr 5 HEVC, and Beamr 5X HEVC content adaptive encoders; Beamr JPEGmini photo optimization software solutions for reducing joint photographic experts group file sizes; and Beamr Silicon IP block, a hardware solution for integration into dedicated video encoding application-specific integrated circuits, graphics processing units, and application processors. The company serves tier one over-the-top platforms, content distributors, video streaming platforms, and Hollywood studios. The company was formerly known as I.C.V.T Ltd. and changed its name to Beamr Imaging Ltd. in January 2015. Beamr Imaging Ltd. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.