Elys BMG Group (NASDAQ:ELYS) vs. Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) Head to Head Comparison

Elys BMG Group (NASDAQ:ELYS) and Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

82.7% of Cloudflare shares are held by institutional investors. 18.5% of Elys BMG Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Cloudflare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Elys BMG Group and Cloudflare”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Elys BMG Group	$43.86 million	0.00	-$18.26 million	N/A	N/A
Cloudflare	$1.67 billion	31.21	-$78.80 million	($0.22)	-690.12

Elys BMG Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cloudflare.

Volatility and Risk

Elys BMG Group has a beta of 2.61, suggesting that its stock price is 161% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cloudflare has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Elys BMG Group and Cloudflare, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Elys BMG Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Cloudflare	4	12	11	0	2.26

Cloudflare has a consensus target price of $136.28, indicating a potential downside of 10.24%. Given Cloudflare’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cloudflare is more favorable than Elys BMG Group.

Profitability

This table compares Elys BMG Group and Cloudflare’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Elys BMG Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Cloudflare	-4.72%	-5.52%	-1.67%

About Elys BMG Group

Elys BMG Group, Inc. engages in the provision of business-to-consumer gaming services in the United States and Europe. The company offers betting platform software services to leisure betting establishments; and operates web based and land-based leisure betting establishments. Its gaming product offerings include sports betting; and online casino, such as online slot and table games, poker, bingo, skilled and interactive games, virtual sports betting, and horse racing. It provides its products through physical, land-based retail locations; newgioco.it or commercial webskins linked to its website; and mobile devices. The company was formerly known as Elys Game Technology, Corp. and changed its name to Elys BMG Group, Inc. in January 2024. Elys BMG Group, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

About Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. operates as a cloud services provider that delivers a range of services to businesses worldwide. The company provides an integrated cloud-based security solution to secure a range of combination of platforms, including public cloud, private cloud, on-premise, software-as-a-service applications, and IoT devices; and website and application security products comprising web application firewall, bot management, distributed denial of service, API gateways, SSL/TLS encryption, script management, security center, and rate limiting products. It offers website and application performance solutions, including content delivery, load balancing, DNS, agro smart routing, video stream delivery, web optimization, cache reserve, cloudfare waiting room, and cloudfare data localization suite; SASE platform through cloudfare one that provides a cloud-based network-as-a-service; network services which deliver network connectivity, security, and performance, including magic WAN, magic transit, magic firewall, cloudflare network interconnect, and spectrum. In addition, the company provides zero trust services, such as cloudflare access, cloudflare gateway, remote browser isolation, cloud access security broker, cloud email security, and data loss prevention products that protects, inspects, and provides privilege rules to grant access to data and application. Further, it provides developer-based solutions consisting of cloudflare workers, R2 object storage, workers KV, durable objects, cloudfare pages, cloudfare stream, and cloudfare images; and consumer products comprising of 1.1.1.1, a DNS resolver, WARP, a virtual private network, and cloudfare registrar that secures registration and management of domain names. The company serves customers in the technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer and retail, industrial, and non-profit industries, as well as government. Cloudflare, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.