Comparing Heritage Distilling (IPST) & Its Peers

Heritage Distilling (NASDAQ:IPST) is one of 30 publicly-traded companies in the “BEVERAGES – ALCOH” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Heritage Distilling to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Heritage Distilling and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Heritage Distilling	1	0	0	0	1.00
Heritage Distilling Competitors	394	1533	1513	62	2.35

As a group, “BEVERAGES – ALCOH” companies have a potential upside of 28.14%. Given Heritage Distilling’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Heritage Distilling has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

37.9% of shares of all “BEVERAGES – ALCOH” companies are held by institutional investors. 13.2% of Heritage Distilling shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.9% of shares of all “BEVERAGES – ALCOH” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Heritage Distilling and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Heritage Distilling	-254.24%	N/A	-65.59%
Heritage Distilling Competitors	6.03%	7.14%	3.76%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Heritage Distilling and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Heritage Distilling	$8.40 million	$710,000.00	-1.37
Heritage Distilling Competitors	$149.96 billion	$800.12 million	9.66

Heritage Distilling’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Heritage Distilling. Heritage Distilling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Heritage Distilling peers beat Heritage Distilling on 12 of the 12 factors compared.

Heritage Distilling Company Profile

Heritage Distilling Holding Company Inc. is a craft distiller of premium brands, including whiskeys, vodkas, gins, rums and ready-to-drink canned cocktails. Heritage Distilling Holding Company Inc. is based in GIG HARBOR, Wash.