Verint Systems (NASDAQ:VRNT) versus Super League Enterprise (NASDAQ:SLE) Head-To-Head Review

Super League Enterprise (NASDAQ:SLE) and Verint Systems (NASDAQ:VRNT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Risk and Volatility

Super League Enterprise has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Verint Systems has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Super League Enterprise and Verint Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Super League Enterprise	-110.58%	-401.11%	-136.94%
Verint Systems	8.49%	15.79%	6.02%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

2.1% of Super League Enterprise shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Verint Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Super League Enterprise shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Verint Systems shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Super League Enterprise and Verint Systems, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Super League Enterprise	0	0	2	0	3.00
Verint Systems	0	3	4	0	2.57

Super League Enterprise presently has a consensus target price of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 247.17%. Verint Systems has a consensus target price of $35.67, indicating a potential upside of 39.76%. Given Super League Enterprise’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Super League Enterprise is more favorable than Verint Systems.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Super League Enterprise and Verint Systems”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Super League Enterprise	$22.27 million	0.50	-$30.33 million	($5.61)	-0.13
Verint Systems	$920.75 million	1.73	$38.61 million	$0.94	27.15

Verint Systems has higher revenue and earnings than Super League Enterprise. Super League Enterprise is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Verint Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Verint Systems beats Super League Enterprise on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Super League Enterprise

Super League Enterprise, Inc. creates and publishes content and media solutions across immersive platforms in the United States and internationally. The company offers access to audiences who gather in immersive digital spaces to socialize, play, explore, collaborate, shop, learn, and create. It also provides a range of development, distribution, monetization, and optimization capabilities designed to engage users through dynamic and energized programs. Its proprietary cloud-based platform offers dynamic media technology; metaverse game experience and tournament technology; and fully remote production and livestream broadcast technology. In addition, the company operates Minecraft server world for more casual players on consoles and tablets. Further, it sells on-platform media and analytics products, and influencer marketing campaign sales to third-party brands and agencies; game development and custom game experiences within its owned and affiliate game worlds; and production, curation and distribution of entertainment content for its network of digital channels and media and entertainment partner channels. The company was formerly known as Super League Gaming, Inc. and changed its name to Super League Enterprise, Inc. in September 2023. Super League Enterprise, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

About Verint Systems

Verint Systems Inc. provides customer engagement solutions worldwide. It offers forecasting and scheduling, channels and routing, knowledge management, fraud and security solutions, quality and compliance, analytics and insights, real-time assistance, self-services, financial compliance, and voice pf the consumer solutions. The company provides Verint Open platform designed to help brands increase CX automation across all touchpoints between organization and customers in the contact center, back office, branch, web sites, and mobile apps. It serves banking, insurance, public, retail, and telecommunication industries. Verint Systems Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.