Life360 (NASDAQ:LIF) & Halma (OTCMKTS:HLMAF) Head to Head Analysis

Life360 (NASDAQ:LIF) and Halma (OTCMKTS:HLMAF) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Life360 and Halma, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Life360	0	1	7	1	3.00
Halma	1	5	2	4	2.75

Life360 currently has a consensus price target of $91.43, suggesting a potential upside of 4.49%. Given Life360’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Life360 is more favorable than Halma.

Volatility and Risk

Life360 has a beta of 3.51, meaning that its share price is 251% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Halma has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Life360 and Halma”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Life360	$371.48 million	18.27	-$4.55 million	$0.32	273.44
Halma	$2.87 billion	6.12	$378.18 million	N/A	N/A

Halma has higher revenue and earnings than Life360.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

20.0% of Life360 shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Life360 and Halma’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Life360	6.45%	7.65%	5.31%
Halma	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Life360 beats Halma on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Life360

Life360 Inc. is a family connection and safety company. Its business category includes mobile app and Tile tracking devices with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 Inc. is based in SAN FRANCISCO.

About Halma

Halma plc, together its subsidiaries, provides technology solutions in the safety, health, and environmental markets in the United States, Mainland Europe, the United Kingdom, the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Safety, Environmental & Analysis, and Medical. The Safety segment provides fire safety, fire detection and fire suppression; safe movement in public, commercial, and industrial spaces; elevator safety; communications in emergencies; control of access in potentially hazardous industrial and commercial environments; electrical safety; and the safe management of pipelines and storage assets solutions. This segment serves shops and restaurants, healthcare facilities, and offices and stadiums; industrial and logistics assets; public spaces and critical infrastructure; and aerospace, and rail and automotive markets. The Environmental & Analysis segment offers optical, optoelectronic, and spectral imaging systems; environmental monitoring, water and waste water analysis and treatment, gas analysis and detection, and optical analysis systems. It serves the optical analysis, water analysis and treatment, gas detection, and environmental monitoring markets. The Medical segment provides critical fluidic components used by medical diagnostics and original equipment manufacturers; components, devices and systems that provide information and analytics to understand patient health and enable providers to make decisions across the continuum of care; technologies and solutions to enable in-vitro diagnostic systems and life-science discoveries and development; and technologies that enable treatment across clinical specialties. This segment serves the life sciences, health assessment and analytics, and therapeutic solutions market. The company was incorporated in 1894 and is headquartered in Amersham, the United Kingdom.