Global Mofy Metaverse (NASDAQ:GMM) & VNET Group (NASDAQ:VNET) Critical Analysis

Global Mofy Metaverse (NASDAQ:GMM) and VNET Group (NASDAQ:VNET) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends and profitability.

Profitability

This table compares Global Mofy Metaverse and VNET Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Global Mofy Metaverse	N/A	N/A	N/A
VNET Group	-28.54%	-5.68%	-1.27%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

2.5% of Global Mofy Metaverse shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.8% of VNET Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.1% of VNET Group 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.

Volatility and Risk

Global Mofy Metaverse has a beta of -2.46, suggesting that its share price is 346% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VNET Group has a beta of 0.15, suggesting that its share price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Global Mofy Metaverse and VNET Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Global Mofy Metaverse	$41.36 million	0.13	$12.14 million	N/A	N/A
VNET Group	$8.26 billion	0.22	-$372.38 million	($0.01)	-708.00

Global Mofy Metaverse has higher earnings, but lower revenue than VNET Group.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Global Mofy Metaverse and VNET Group, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Global Mofy Metaverse	0	0	0	0	0.00
VNET Group	0	0	4	2	3.33

VNET Group has a consensus price target of $9.30, suggesting a potential upside of 31.36%. Given VNET Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe VNET Group is more favorable than Global Mofy Metaverse.

Summary

VNET Group beats Global Mofy Metaverse on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Global Mofy Metaverse

Global Mofy Metaverse Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides virtual content production, digital marketing, and digital assets development services for the metaverse industry in the People's Republic of China. It offers services for visual effect design, content development, production, and integration based on customers specific needs; and 3D rebuilt and artificial intelligence technologies using its Mofy Lab technology platform. The company also grants use right of digital assets for various applications, such as movies, TV series, AR/VR, animation, advertising, and gaming. Global The company was incorporated in 2021 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.

About VNET Group

VNET Group, Inc., an investment holding company, provides hosting and related services in China. It offers managed hosting services consisting of managed retail services, such as colocation services that dedicate data center space to house customers' servers and networking equipment, as well as allow customers to lease partial or entire cabinets for their servers; interconnectivity services that allow customers to connect their servers; value-added services, including hybrid IT, bare metal, firewall, server load balancing, data backup and recovery, data center management, server management, and backup server services; cloud services that allow customers to run applications over the internet using IT infrastructure; and VPN Services that extend customers' private networks by setting up connections through the public internet. The company also provides server administration services, such as operating system support and assistance with updates, server monitoring, server backup and restoration, server security evaluation, firewall services, and disaster recovery services. It serves information technology and cloud services, communications and social networking, gaming and entertainment, e-commerce, automobile, financial services, and blue-chip and small-to-mid-sized enterprises; government agencies; individuals; and telecommunication carriers. The company was formerly known as 21Vianet Group, Inc. and changed its name to VNET Group, Inc. in October 2021. VNET Group, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.