Head-To-Head Analysis: SharpLink Gaming (NASDAQ:SBET) & SentinelOne (NYSE:S)

SharpLink Gaming (NASDAQ:SBET) and SentinelOne (NYSE:S) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

13.8% of SharpLink Gaming shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of SentinelOne shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.0% of SharpLink Gaming shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of SentinelOne shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility & Risk

SharpLink Gaming has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SentinelOne has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for SharpLink Gaming and SentinelOne, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SharpLink Gaming	0	0	0	0	0.00
SentinelOne	0	7	19	2	2.82

SentinelOne has a consensus price target of $29.48, indicating a potential upside of 27.75%. Given SentinelOne’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SentinelOne is more favorable than SharpLink Gaming.

Profitability

This table compares SharpLink Gaming and SentinelOne’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SharpLink Gaming	N/A	N/A	-22.00%
SentinelOne	-37.61%	-15.80%	-10.96%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares SharpLink Gaming and SentinelOne”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SharpLink Gaming	$4.95 million	0.38	-$14.24 million	N/A	N/A
SentinelOne	$621.15 million	11.94	-$338.69 million	($0.94)	-24.55

SharpLink Gaming has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SentinelOne.

Summary

SentinelOne beats SharpLink Gaming on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SharpLink Gaming

SharpLink Gaming, Inc. operates as an online technology company that connects sports fans, leagues, and sports websites to sports betting and iGaming content. The company operates through four segments: Affiliate Marketing Services United States, Affiliate Marketing Services International, Sports Gaming Client Services, and SportsHub Games Network. It operates a performance marketing platform, which owns and operates state-specific web domains to attract, acquire, and drive local sports betting and casino traffic directly to the company's sportsbook and casino partners, which are licensed to operate in each respective state; and offers sports betting data to sports media publishers. It also provides iGaming and affiliate marketing network, which focuses on delivering quality traffic and player acquisitions, and retention and conversions to global iGaming operator partners worldwide; and development, hosting, operations, maintenance, and service of free-to-play games and contests. In addition, the company owns and operates various real-money fantasy sports and sports simulation games and mobile apps on its platform; and is licensed or authorized to operate in every state in the United States, where fantasy sports play is legal and in which SportsHub has elected to operate based on the financial viability. SharpLink Gaming, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

About SentinelOne

SentinelOne, Inc. operates as a cybersecurity provider in the United States and internationally. Its Singularity Platform delivers an artificial intelligence-powered autonomous threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities across an organization's endpoints, cloud workloads, and identify credentials, which enables seamless and autonomous protection against a spectrum of cyber threats. In addition, it offers endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, cloud and identity security, attack surface management, mobile endpoint security, xdr power tools, watchtower, and vigilance MDR. The company was formerly known as Sentinel Labs, Inc. and changed its name to SentinelOne, Inc. in March 2021. SentinelOne, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.