Intellicheck (NYSE:IDN) & Leafly (OTC:LFLY) Head-To-Head Survey

Leafly (OTC:LFLY) and Intellicheck (NYSE:IDN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Leafly and Intellicheck, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Leafly	0	0	0	0	0.00
Intellicheck	0	1	3	0	2.75

Intellicheck has a consensus target price of $7.25, suggesting a potential upside of 20.63%. Given Intellicheck’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Intellicheck is more favorable than Leafly.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

15.6% of Leafly shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of Intellicheck shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Leafly shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Intellicheck shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Leafly has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intellicheck has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Leafly and Intellicheck’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%
Intellicheck	-3.37%	-1.59%	-1.23%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Leafly and Intellicheck”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) 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
Intellicheck	$21.97 million	5.53	-$1.98 million	$0.01	601.00

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

Summary

Intellicheck beats Leafly on 10 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 Intellicheck

Intellicheck, Inc., a technology company, provides on-demand digital identity validation solutions for KYC, fraud, and age verification needs in North America. The company offers solutions for digital and physical identities for financial services, fintech companies, BNPL providers, e-commerce and retail commerce businesses, law enforcement, and government agencies. It provides identity systems products, including commercial identification products, such as Intellicheck Platform, an identity solution that checks whether an ID is valid, matches the ID to the person presenting it, and provides a risk score to determine the risk of doing business with that person; IDN-Portal, an Intellicheck-branded identity validation application that provides the ability to scan an ID using a mobile phone; IDN-Portal+ that offers document validation, retail POS integration, additional data for analytics and analysis, and online validation, and other features; IDN-Direct that provides access to additional data and the ability to use the platform's Risk Score capability to help with decision-making; and Intellicheck mobile app, which provides the ability to login and scan an ID. The company also offers State Aware Software solution, which provides or restricts information that is electronically scanned from an ID based on the electronic reading laws according to the state in which the ID is scanned; data collection devices that enable its software applications to be used on a variety of commercially available credit card terminals, PDAs, tablets, laptops, desktops, mobile phones, and point-of-sale terminals; and instant credit application kiosk software applications. It serves government, military, and commercial markets. The company was formerly known as Intellicheck Mobilisa, Inc. and changed its name to Intellicheck, Inc. in May 2017. Intellicheck, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.