Leafly (NASDAQ:LFLY – Get Free Report) and BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
Profitability
This table compares Leafly and BlackLine’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% |
BlackLine | 19.83% | 31.02% | 4.92% |
Risk & Volatility
Leafly has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackLine has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Leafly and BlackLine, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
Leafly | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
BlackLine | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2.17 |
Leafly currently has a consensus price target of $7.59, indicating a potential upside of 400.99%. BlackLine has a consensus price target of $64.10, indicating a potential upside of 3.59%. Given Leafly’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Leafly is more favorable than BlackLine.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Leafly and BlackLine”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
Leafly | $42.25 million | 0.11 | -$9.50 million | ($2.32) | -0.65 |
BlackLine | $639.61 million | 6.05 | $58.17 million | $0.98 | 63.14 |
BlackLine has higher revenue and earnings than Leafly. Leafly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackLine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BlackLine beats Leafly on 11 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 BlackLine
BlackLine, Inc. provides cloud-based solutions to automate and streamline accounting and finance operations worldwide. It offers financial close management solutions, such as account reconciliations that provides a centralized workspace for users to collaborate on account reconciliations; transaction matching that analyzes and reconciles individual transactions; task management to create and manage processes and task lists; and financial reporting analytics that enables analysis and validation of financial data. The company's also provides journal entry that allows users to generate, review, and post manual journal entries; variance analysis that monitors and identifies anomalous fluctuations in balance sheet and income statement account balances; consolidation integrity manager that manages the automated system-to-system tie-out process; compliance, an integrated solution that facilitates compliance-related initiatives, consolidates project management, and provides visibility over control self-assessments and testing; and smart close for SAP solution. In addition, it offers blackline cash application, and credit and risk, collections, disputes and deductions, and team and task management, as well as AR intelligence solutions and electronic invoicing and compliance. Further, the company provides intercompany create functionality that stores permissions and business logic exceptions by entity, service, and transaction type; intercompany balance and resolve, which records an organization's intercompany transactions; and netting and settlement that enables open intercompany transactions, which integrate with treasury systems. The company sells its solutions primarily through direct sales force to multinational corporations, large domestic enterprises, and mid-market companies across various industries. BlackLine, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California.
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