Analyzing Xperi (NASDAQ:XPER) and Leafly (OTC:LFLY)

Leafly (OTC:LFLY) and Xperi (NASDAQ:XPER) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Leafly and Xperi, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Leafly	0	0	0	0	0.00
Xperi	0	0	2	0	3.00

Xperi has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 82.88%. Given Xperi’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Xperi is more favorable than Leafly.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

15.6% of Leafly shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.3% of Xperi shares are held by institutional investors. 6.9% of Leafly shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Xperi shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Leafly and Xperi”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Leafly	$35.87 million	3.24	-$9.50 million	($1.60)	-23.13
Xperi	$453.96 million	0.61	-$136.61 million	$0.16	37.59

Leafly has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Xperi. Leafly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xperi, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

Leafly has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xperi has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Leafly and Xperi’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%
Xperi	-16.72%	-7.03%	-4.14%

Summary

Xperi beats Leafly on 9 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 Xperi

Xperi Inc. operates as a consumer and entertainment technology company worldwide. It offers Pay-TV solutions, including UX solutions that allows service providers to customize elements of the interactive program guide for their customers and to upgrade the programming features and services; IPTV, a cloud-based solution that supports various services and applications, such as TV programming, broadband OTT video content, digital music, photos, and other media experiences; managed IPTV service; video metadata and services; managed IPTV Service, a customizable, cloud-enabled, and end-to-end streaming video solution that enables operators to quickly launch a branded, fully compliant, full-featured Pay-TV service; metadata libraries comprising television, sports, movies, digital-first, celebrities, books, and video games; personalized content discovery, natural language voice, and insights; and TiVo DVR subscriptions, as well as technical support service. It also provides consumer electronics solutions, such as home and mobile audio solutions, and silicon and software solutions for edge inference; connected car solutions, including HD Radio and DTS AutoStage; and Media Platform that provides Vewd middleware solutions, TiVo OS, TiVo Stream 4K, connected TVs, and connected cars that leverage the TiVo OS, as well as advertising solutions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.