Analyzing T Stamp (NASDAQ:IDAI) and Leafly (NASDAQ:LFLY)

Leafly (NASDAQ:LFLY) and T Stamp (NASDAQ:IDAI) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

15.6% of Leafly shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.3% of T Stamp shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of Leafly shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of T Stamp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Leafly and T Stamp, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Leafly	0	0	1	0	3.00
T Stamp	0	0	0	0	N/A

Leafly presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 198.51%. Given Leafly’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Leafly is more favorable than T Stamp.

Volatility & Risk

Leafly has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, T Stamp has a beta of -0.65, meaning that its stock price is 165% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Leafly and T Stamp’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Leafly	-16.20%	N/A	-28.74%
T Stamp	-166.15%	-236.03%	-102.67%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Leafly and T Stamp’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Leafly	$42.25 million	0.12	-$9.50 million	($3.21)	-0.63
T Stamp	$4.56 million	1.08	-$7.64 million	($0.94)	-0.49

T Stamp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Leafly. Leafly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than T Stamp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Leafly beats T Stamp on 8 of the 13 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 T Stamp

T Stamp Inc. develops and markets identity authentication software solutions for government and enterprise partners, and peer-to-peer markets worldwide. It develops proprietary artificial intelligence-powered solutions, researching and leveraging machine learning, artificial intelligence, biometric science, cryptography, and data mining to deliver insightful identity and trust predictions that identify and defend against fraudulent identity attacks, protect sensitive user information, and extend the reach of digital services through global accessibility. It uses the Irreversibly Transformed Identity Token technology combined with a data architecture that can use one or multiple sources of biometric or other identifying data. The company also offers solutions for privacy and data protection, biometric multi-factor authentication, document validation, identity verification, geolocation, duplicate detection, age estimation, and biometric capture, as well as crypto security and compliance, and trusted message. It serves banking/fintech; humanitarian and development services; cryptocurrency and digital assets; biometrically secured email and digital communication; KYC/AML compliance; government and law enforcement; P2P transactions, social media, and sharing economy; and real estate, travel, and healthcare industries. T Stamp Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.