Viad (NYSE:VVI) versus NextPlay Technologies (NASDAQ:NXTP) Head-To-Head Review

Viad (NYSE:VVI) and NextPlay Technologies (NASDAQ:NXTP) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

89.9% of Viad shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.0% of NextPlay Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Viad shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.5% of NextPlay Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

Viad has a beta of 2.04, meaning that its stock price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextPlay Technologies has a beta of 2.78, meaning that its stock price is 178% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Viad and NextPlay Technologies’ gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Viad	$1.24 billion	0.59	$16.02 million	($0.38)	-91.32
NextPlay Technologies	$8.20 million	0.00	-$37.97 million	N/A	N/A

Viad has higher revenue and earnings than NextPlay Technologies.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Viad	0.61%	12.70%	1.29%
NextPlay Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Viad and NextPlay Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Viad	0	0	2	0	3.00
NextPlay Technologies	0	0	0	0	N/A

Viad currently has a consensus price target of $46.50, indicating a potential upside of 34.01%. Given Viad’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Viad is more favorable than NextPlay Technologies.

Summary

Viad beats NextPlay Technologies on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Viad

Viad Corp provides hospitality, leisure activities, experiential marketing, and live events in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It operates in three segments: Pursuit, Spiro, and GES Exhibitions. The Pursuit segment offers recreational attractions, hotels and lodges, food and beverage, retail, sightseeing, and ground transportation services. This segment consists of Banff Jasper Collection, the Alaska Collection, the Glacier Park Collection, FlyOver, and Sky Lagoon. The Spiro segment operates as an experiential marketing agency that partners with brands around the world to manage and elevate their global experiential marketing activities. The GES Exhibition segment engages as an exhibition services company that partners with exhibition and conference organizers as a full-service provider of strategic and logistics solutions to manage the complexity of their shows. It serves event organizers and corporate brand marketers; and tour operators, tour wholesalers, destination management companies, and retail travel agencies. Viad Corp was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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.