Head-To-Head Survey: Greenpro Capital (NASDAQ:GRNQ) and Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ:HLNE)

Greenpro Capital (NASDAQ:GRNQ) and Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ:HLNE) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Greenpro Capital and Hamilton Lane, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Greenpro Capital	1	0	0	0	1.00
Hamilton Lane	0	2	7	1	2.90

Hamilton Lane has a consensus price target of $126.62, indicating a potential upside of 45.00%. Given Hamilton Lane’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hamilton Lane is more favorable than Greenpro Capital.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.9% of Greenpro Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Hamilton Lane shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of Greenpro Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.0% of Hamilton Lane shares are owned by company 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 & Earnings

This table compares Greenpro Capital and Hamilton Lane”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Greenpro Capital	$2.07 million	7.60	-$2.98 million	($3.60)	-2.41
Hamilton Lane	$758.99 million	6.39	$249.18 million	$6.56	13.31

Hamilton Lane has higher revenue and earnings than Greenpro Capital. Greenpro Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hamilton Lane, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Greenpro Capital has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hamilton Lane has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Greenpro Capital and Hamilton Lane’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Greenpro Capital	-169.65%	-22.06%	-18.90%
Hamilton Lane	32.14%	25.10%	15.75%

Summary

Hamilton Lane beats Greenpro Capital on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Greenpro Capital

Greenpro Capital Corp. provides financial consulting and corporate advisory services to small and medium-size businesses primarily in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and China. It operates in two segments, Service Business and Real Estate Business. The company offers business consulting and corporate advisory services, including cross-border listing advisory, tax planning, bookkeeping, advisory and transaction, record management, and accounting outsourcing services; and venture capital related education and support services. It is also involved in the acquisition and rental of real estate properties held for investment and sale; and provision of company formation advisory, company secretarial, and financial services. In addition, the company provides corporate advisory services, such as company review, bank loan advisory, and bank products analysis, as well as loan and credit, and insurance brokerage services; and wealth planning, administration, charity, tax and legal, trusteeship and risk management, investment planning and management, and business support services, as well as asset protection and management, consolidation, and performance monitoring services. The company was formerly known as Greenpro, Inc. and changed its name to Greenpro Capital Corp. in May 2015. Greenpro Capital Corp. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

About Hamilton Lane

Hamilton Lane Incorporated is a private equity firm specializing in early venture, emerging growth, turnaround, middle market, mature, mid-venture, bridge, buyout, distressed/vulture, loan, mezzanine in growth capital companies. It prefers to invest in energy, industrials, consumer discretionary, health care, real estate, information technology, utilities, and consumer services. The firm prefers to invest in Africa/Middle East, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America and Caribbean, United States of America, and Canada. The firm prefers to invest between $1 million and $100 million. It prefers to take majority stake. Hamilton Lane Incorporated was founded in 1991 and is based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania with additional offices across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.