Alliance Entertainment (AENT) Competitors

Alliance Entertainment (NASDAQ:AENT) and MGP Ingredients (NASDAQ:MGPI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and community ranking.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in AENT or MGPI?

MGP Ingredients received 272 more outperform votes than Alliance Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Alliance Entertainment an outperform vote while only 61.63% of users gave MGP Ingredients an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Alliance Entertainment	Outperform Votes 1 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
MGP Ingredients	Outperform Votes 273 61.63%	Underperform Votes 170 38.37%

Does the media favor AENT or MGPI?

In the previous week, MGP Ingredients had 4 more articles in the media than Alliance Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for MGP Ingredients and 2 mentions for Alliance Entertainment. MGP Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Alliance Entertainment's score of 0.46 indicating that MGP Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Alliance Entertainment	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
MGP Ingredients	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do analysts recommend AENT or MGPI?

MGP Ingredients has a consensus price target of $67.00, suggesting a potential upside of 128.90%. Given MGP Ingredients' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MGP Ingredients is more favorable than Alliance Entertainment.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alliance Entertainment	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
MGP Ingredients	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83

Is AENT or MGPI more profitable?

MGP Ingredients has a net margin of 14.44% compared to Alliance Entertainment's net margin of 0.62%. MGP Ingredients' return on equity of 14.39% beat Alliance Entertainment's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alliance Entertainment	0.62%	10.26%	2.50%
MGP Ingredients	14.44%	14.39%	8.95%

Which has higher valuation and earnings, AENT or MGPI?

MGP Ingredients has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alliance Entertainment. MGP Ingredients is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alliance Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alliance Entertainment	$1.07B	0.21	$4.58M	$0.13	33.54
MGP Ingredients	$703.63M	0.88	$107.47M	$1.51	19.38

Do insiders and institutionals believe in AENT or MGPI?

0.3% of Alliance Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.1% of MGP Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. 81.9% of Alliance Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 36.2% of MGP Ingredients shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk & volatility, AENT or MGPI?

Alliance Entertainment has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MGP Ingredients has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

MGP Ingredients beats Alliance Entertainment on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.