Leafly (OTC:LFLY – Get Free Report) and Xperi (NASDAQ:XPER – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Volatility and Risk
Leafly has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xperi has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Leafly and Xperi”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Leafly | $35.87 million | 3.24 | -$9.50 million | ($1.60) | -23.13 |
| Xperi | $453.96 million | 0.63 | -$136.61 million | $0.16 | 38.47 |
Leafly has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Xperi. Leafly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xperi, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Leafly and Xperi’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Leafly | -14.65% | N/A | -25.26% |
| Xperi | -16.72% | -7.03% | -4.14% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Leafly and Xperi, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Leafly | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Xperi | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
Xperi has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 78.72%. Given Xperi’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Xperi is more favorable than Leafly.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
15.6% of Leafly shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.3% of Xperi shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Leafly shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Xperi shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Xperi beats Leafly on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Leafly
Leafly Holdings, Inc. owns and operates a platform to provide consumers with cannabis information and connects consumers to cannabis brands and licensed retailers. The company offers subscription-based marketplace listings, digital advertising solutions, and software as a service-based tools to cannabis retailers; and information, reviews, menus, and ordering and delivery options to its audience through its website and mobile applications. Leafly Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
About Xperi
Xperi Inc. operates as a consumer and entertainment technology company worldwide. It offers Pay-TV solutions, including UX solutions that allows service providers to customize elements of the interactive program guide for their customers and to upgrade the programming features and services; IPTV, a cloud-based solution that supports various services and applications, such as TV programming, broadband OTT video content, digital music, photos, and other media experiences; managed IPTV service; video metadata and services; managed IPTV Service, a customizable, cloud-enabled, and end-to-end streaming video solution that enables operators to quickly launch a branded, fully compliant, full-featured Pay-TV service; metadata libraries comprising television, sports, movies, digital-first, celebrities, books, and video games; personalized content discovery, natural language voice, and insights; and TiVo DVR subscriptions, as well as technical support service. It also provides consumer electronics solutions, such as home and mobile audio solutions, and silicon and software solutions for edge inference; connected car solutions, including HD Radio and DTS AutoStage; and Media Platform that provides Vewd middleware solutions, TiVo OS, TiVo Stream 4K, connected TVs, and connected cars that leverage the TiVo OS, as well as advertising solutions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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