Financial Contrast: LQR House (NASDAQ:YHC) and Publicis Groupe (OTCMKTS:PUBGY)

LQR House (NASDAQ:YHC) and Publicis Groupe (OTCMKTS:PUBGY) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.

Volatility and Risk

LQR House has a beta of 4.52, suggesting that its share price is 352% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Publicis Groupe has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares LQR House and Publicis Groupe”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
LQR House	$2.50 million	3.35	-$22.75 million	($114.74)	-0.01
Publicis Groupe	$17.35 billion	1.39	$1.80 billion	N/A	N/A

Publicis Groupe has higher revenue and earnings than LQR House.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for LQR House and Publicis Groupe, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LQR House	0	0	0	0	0.00
Publicis Groupe	0	1	1	1	3.00

Profitability

This table compares LQR House and Publicis Groupe’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LQR House	-949.77%	-259.35%	-178.93%
Publicis Groupe	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.1% of Publicis Groupe shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of LQR House shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Publicis Groupe shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Publicis Groupe beats LQR House on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About LQR House

LQR House, Inc. provides digital marketing and brand development for alcoholic beverage space. It intends to integrate the supply, sales, and marketing facets of the alcoholic beverage space into one easy to use platform and become the one-stop-shop for everything related to alcohol. The company was founded on January 11, 2021 and is headquartered in Miami Beach, FL.

About Publicis Groupe

Publicis Groupe S.A. provides marketing, communications, and digital business transformation services in North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. The company offers advisory services for brand strategy, and repositioning and their identity under the Publicis Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, Marcel, Fallon, and BBH brands; online advertising services under the Razorfish and Moxie brand names; crisis communications, press relations, public affairs, institutional relations, financial communications, and strategy management services; media consulting, planning, and buying services; performance marketing services; and e-commerce services. It also designs and delivers brand content for various channels, such as television, print, radio, cinema, and billboards, as well as digital, including display and social networks under the Prodigious, Harbor, and The Pub brand names. In addition, the company operates Epsilon PeopleCloud, a unified data and technology platform; and Publicis Sapient, a technological, digital, and consulting platform. Further, it provides healthcare communication services under the Digitas Health, Publicis Health Media, and Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness brands for the healthcare and well-being sectors. It serves clients in the automotive, retail, financial services, consumer products, and media sectors. Publicis Groupe S.A. was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Paris, France.