Reviewing Blue Sphere (OTCMKTS:BLSP) & System1 (NYSE:SST)

Blue Sphere (OTCMKTS:BLSP) and System1 (NYSE:SST) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.

Volatility & Risk

Blue Sphere has a beta of -4.79, indicating that its stock price is 579% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, System1 has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Blue Sphere and System1, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Blue Sphere	0	0	0	0	0.00
System1	0	1	0	0	2.00

System1 has a consensus target price of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 210.08%. Given System1’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe System1 is more favorable than Blue Sphere.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Blue Sphere and System1″s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Blue Sphere	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
System1	$364.45 million	0.16	-$227.22 million	($1.21)	-0.53

Blue Sphere has higher earnings, but lower revenue than System1.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

87.5% of System1 shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of Blue Sphere shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of System1 shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Blue Sphere and System1’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Blue Sphere	N/A	N/A	N/A
System1	-24.18%	-68.85%	-18.27%

Summary

System1 beats Blue Sphere on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Blue Sphere

Blue Sphere Corporation operates as a developer and independent power producer in the clean energy production and waste to energy markets. The company focuses on projects related to the acquisition, construction, and development of biogas facilities in the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Israel. It also focuses on soil amendments, compost, and other by-products. The company was formerly known as Jin Jie Corp. and changed its name to Blue Sphere Corporation in February 2010. Blue Sphere Corporation was founded in 2007 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

About System1

System1, Inc. provides omnichannel customer acquisition platform services through its proprietary responsive acquisition marketing platform in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, and internationally. It operates through two segments: Owned and Operated Advertising, and Partner Network. The company engages in the provision of acquiring traffic to its owned and operated websites, as well as revenue-sharing arrangements and related services. It also operates MapQuest, a web-based navigation service that delivers turn-by-turn direction services to users; Info.com, a metasearch engine that consumers can use to search for relevant information; HowStuffWorks, a commercial website focused on helping people solve problems in their daily lives by using various types of digital media to easily breakdown and explain complex concepts, topics, terminology and mechanisms; Startpage, a private search engine that allows users to browse and search the Internet in complete privacy; and CouponFollow for coupon destinations for online shoppers, as well as ActiveBeat and Infospace. In addition, the company provides antivirus software solutions, which offers customers a single packaged solution that provides protection and reporting to the end users. The company is based in Los Angeles, California.