Head-To-Head Comparison: Gemini Space Station (NASDAQ:GEMI) vs. B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY)

B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY) and Gemini Space Station (NASDAQ:GEMI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and profitability.

Profitability

This table compares B. Riley Financial and Gemini Space Station’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
B. Riley Financial	35.88%	39,260.09%	22.99%
Gemini Space Station	-250.13%	-75.66%	-22.38%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for B. Riley Financial and Gemini Space Station, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
B. Riley Financial	1	0	0	0	1.00
Gemini Space Station	3	7	3	0	2.00

Gemini Space Station has a consensus price target of $10.84, suggesting a potential upside of 86.51%. Given Gemini Space Station’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Gemini Space Station is more favorable than B. Riley Financial.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares B. Riley Financial and Gemini Space Station”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
B. Riley Financial	$967.60 million	0.25	$307.42 million	$12.70	0.47
Gemini Space Station	$179.57 million	4.19	-$582.81 million	($9.71)	-0.60

B. Riley Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Gemini Space Station. Gemini Space Station is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than B. Riley Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

50.2% of B. Riley Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.8% of B. Riley Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 63.2% of Gemini Space Station shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

B. Riley Financial beats Gemini Space Station on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About B. Riley Financial

B. Riley Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides financial services to corporate, institutional, and high net worth clients in North America, Australia, the Asia Pacific, and Europe. The company operates through six segments: Capital Markets, Wealth Management, Financial Consulting, Auction and Liquidation, Communications, and Consumer. The Capital Markets segments offers investment banking, equity research, institutional sales and trading, securities lending, fund and asset management, direct lending, venture capital, proprietary trading, and investment services; merger and acquisition, restructuring advisory, and recapitalization services; public and private equity offerings; and debt financing solutions. This segment also trades in equity securities. The Wealth Management segment provides wealth management and tax services. The Financial Consulting segment offers bankruptcy restructuring and turnaround management, forensic accounting and litigation support, valuation and appraisal, and real estate services. The Auction and Liquidation Segment provides auction and liquidation services. The Communications segment offers dial-up, mobile broadband and digital subscriber line services under the NetZero and Juno brands; cloud communication services; VoIP cloud-based technology and communication devices and subscription services through magicJack; and mobile phone voice, text, and data services and devices through Marconi Wireless. The Consumer segment sells laptop and computer accessories. The company was formerly known as Great American Group, Inc. and changed its name to B. Riley Financial, Inc. in November 2014. B. Riley Financial, Inc. was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

About Gemini Space Station

Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom. Gemini envisions a future where crypto will redesign the global financial system, the internet, and money in a way that provides greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all. As a trusted bridge between the traditional financial system and the emerging cryptoeconomy, we are providing access for individuals and institutions to a decentralized future that is more open, fair, and secure. Gemini was founded in 2014 to be the most trusted, secure, and easy way to buy, sell, and store crypto assets. As of July 31, 2025, we serve approximately 549,000 MTUs and approximately 10,000 institutions in over 60 countries, with over $21 billion of assets on our platform, over $285 billion in lifetime trading volume, and over $830 billion in transfers processed on our platform. Since our founding, we have watched the overall crypto market capitalization expand from under $10 billion to over $3 trillion as users discover the onchain world. Our core exchange product has expanded over time to become a comprehensive platform for our users to engage with the cryptoeconomy, including a derivatives exchange, staking services, an over-the-counter (“OTC”) trading desk, institutional-grade custody, a New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”)-regulated stablecoin, a U.S. credit card, and a Web3 studio for NFTs. We support a large variety of crypto assets on our platform, including bitcoin, ether, and stablecoins. We strive to deliver a seamless user experience to both retail and institutional users: • Retail: We often serve as a primary gateway for individual retail users into the cryptoeconomy. We provide a user-friendly, secure platform and mobile app for users to buy, sell, store, stake, and transfer a variety of crypto assets. Our products aim to suit the needs of beginners and sophisticated users alike. • Institutional: We provide institutional investors, including asset managers, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and corporations with a robust and secure platform to access crypto markets. We offer advanced trading, OTC trading, and institutional-grade custody. On the Gemini platform, a user can begin their crypto journey with $1 or $1 million and engage with our continually updated educational materials to learn about all aspects of the cryptoeconomy. Since our founding, we have sought to adhere to high standards of security, regulation, and compliance. We operate exchanges through regulated entities in the United States and abroad. In addition, we offer digital asset custody services through Gemini Trust, a New York limited purpose trust company. All customer assets are held in full on our platform, ensuring every unit of cryptocurrency or fiat held by a user is available to the user. We hold money transmission licenses (“MTLs”) or the statutory equivalent in all states that require such licenses so that we are able to operate in all 50 states and have direct access to fiat banking rails. We believe our early focus on security and compliance has made us one of the most trusted brands in crypto and on-ramps into the cryptoeconomy. Our crypto-native technology stack at the core of our platform enables us to support advanced functionality and complex blockchain integrations while serving the demands of a global, 24/7/365 crypto market. Our proprietary, in-house custody solutions enable us to offer products that are both secure and easy to use. This approach to security, innovation, and an elegant user experience has created a powerful flywheel effect. Our product innovation and security have attracted a growing, loyal user base, which has allowed us to reinvest in new, innovative products at the forefront of a complex and rapidly growing industry. This furthers our competitive position and helps solidify us as one of the leading on-ramps into the cryptoeconomy. We have grown to a significant scale since our founding and continue to benefit from a loyal user base that expands over time. Longer term, we expect to continue to grow and diversify our transaction-based revenue through the growth of newly launched products, such as derivatives, and the diversification of assets on our platform to represent a wider variety of crypto-asset use cases with less cross-asset correlation in volatility. We also expect growth in non-transaction revenue to contribute to smaller market-based fluctuations in our results. Our total revenue is largely generated from transaction fees earned on volume-based trades across retail and institutional users. For the year ended December 31, 2024, transaction revenue represented 69.7% of total revenue, and our total revenue was $142.2 million, with net income (loss) of $(158.5) million and Adjusted EBITDA of $(13.2) million. For the six months ended June 30, 2025, transaction revenue represented 65.5% of total revenue, and our total revenue was $68.6 million, with net income (loss) of $(282.5) million and Adjusted EBITDA of $(113.5) million. Our principal executive offices are located in New York, New York.