Critical Survey: PLAYSTUDIOS (NASDAQ:MYPS) & NICE (NASDAQ:NICE)

PLAYSTUDIOS (NASDAQ:MYPS) and NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares PLAYSTUDIOS and NICE”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PLAYSTUDIOS	$310.89 million	0.70	-$19.39 million	($0.19)	-9.16
NICE	$2.38 billion	4.72	$338.30 million	$6.46	27.63

NICE has higher revenue and earnings than PLAYSTUDIOS. PLAYSTUDIOS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NICE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

PLAYSTUDIOS has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NICE has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for PLAYSTUDIOS and NICE, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PLAYSTUDIOS	1	3	2	0	2.17
NICE	0	4	12	0	2.75

PLAYSTUDIOS currently has a consensus target price of $3.63, suggesting a potential upside of 108.33%. NICE has a consensus target price of $250.27, suggesting a potential upside of 40.21%. Given PLAYSTUDIOS’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PLAYSTUDIOS is more favorable than NICE.

Profitability

This table compares PLAYSTUDIOS and NICE’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PLAYSTUDIOS	-8.75%	-9.15%	-7.29%
NICE	16.11%	15.31%	10.40%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

37.5% of PLAYSTUDIOS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.3% of NICE shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.3% of PLAYSTUDIOS shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of NICE shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

NICE beats PLAYSTUDIOS on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About PLAYSTUDIOS

PLAYSTUDIOS, Inc. develops and publishes free-to-play casual games for mobile and social platforms in the United States and internationally. The company's game portfolio includes a diverse range of titles comprising social casino, card, puzzle, and adventure games. It also offers POP! Slots, myVEGAS Slots, my KONAMI Slots, MGM Slots Live, myVEGAS Blackjack, myVEGAS Bingo, Tetris, Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, Jumbline 2, Sudoku, and Mahjong games. PLAYSTUDIOS, Inc. is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

About NICE

NICE Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud platforms for AI-driven digital business solutions worldwide. It offers CXone, a cloud native open platform; Enlighten, an AI engine for the customer engagement market; and smart self service enable organizations to address consumers' needs; and journey orchestration solutions that empower organizations to connect and route customers to deal with the customer's request, and connects them using real time AI-based routing. The company provides smart self service solutions that empower organizations to build intelligent automated conversations based on data; and prepared agent solutions and tools enable contact center agents to guide and alert them in real time; provides solutions that help organizations to record structured and unstructured customer interaction and transaction data; and NICE Evidencentral, an digital evidence management platform for public safety emergency communications, law enforcement, and criminal justice helps agencies. In addition, it offers X-Sight, is an open and flexible AI-cloud platform for financial crime and compliance; Xceed, a cloud platform for comprehensive AML and fraud prevention for small and mid-sized organizations; data intelligence solutions that enable organizations to turn raw data into comprehensive actionable intelligence to prevent and detect financial crimes; AI and analytics technologies to detect and prevent financial crimes in real-time; money laundering and fraud prevention solutions that help organizations adhere to capital markets compliance and anti-money laundering compliance regulations; intelligent investigations solutions; and self-service solutions that provide organizations with customization and self-development capabilities. The company was formerly known as NICE-Systems Ltd. and changed its name to NICE Ltd. in June 2016. NICE Ltd. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel.