Green Thumb Industries (OTC:GTBIF – Get Free Report) and Yield10 Bioscience (NASDAQ:YTEN – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Green Thumb Industries and Yield10 Bioscience”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Green Thumb Industries | $1.05 billion | 0.99 | $36.27 million | $0.21 | 23.43 |
| Yield10 Bioscience | $60,000.00 | 0.18 | -$14.45 million | ($26.12) | 0.00 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
0.1% of Green Thumb Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.9% of Yield10 Bioscience shares are held by institutional investors. 9.4% of Green Thumb Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Yield10 Bioscience shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Green Thumb Industries and Yield10 Bioscience’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Green Thumb Industries | 5.68% | 3.65% | 2.52% |
| Yield10 Bioscience | N/A | N/A | -296.08% |
Volatility & Risk
Green Thumb Industries has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yield10 Bioscience has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Green Thumb Industries and Yield10 Bioscience, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Green Thumb Industries | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4.00 |
| Yield10 Bioscience | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Summary
Green Thumb Industries beats Yield10 Bioscience on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Green Thumb Industries
Green Thumb Industries Inc. manufactures, distributes, markets, and sells of cannabis products for medical and adult-use in the United States. It operates through two segments, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods. The company offers cannabis flower; processed and packaged products, including pre-rolls, concentrates, vapes, capsules, tinctures, edibles, topicals, and other cannabis-related products under the &Shine, Beboe, Dogwalkers, Doctor Solomon’s, Good Green, incredibles, and RHYTHM brands. It distributes its products primarily to third-party retail customers and sells finished products directly to consumers in its own retail stores, as well as direct-to consumer delivery channel. Green Thumb Industries Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
About Yield10 Bioscience
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. operates as an agricultural bioscience company that focuses on commercializing products using the Camelina oilseeds in the United States. Its products include Camelina oil for production of high levels of the omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) and docosahexanoic acid (DHA); and for use as a low-carbon intensity feedstock oil for biofuels, including biodiesel, renewable diesel (RD), and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The company was formerly known as Metabolix, Inc. and changed its name to Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. in January 2017. Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.
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