Critical Comparison: Future Farm Technologies (OTCMKTS:FFRMF) and TeleTech (NASDAQ:TTEC)

Future Farm Technologies (OTCMKTS:FFRMF) and TeleTech (NASDAQ:TTEC) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings and institutional ownership.

Volatility & Risk

Future Farm Technologies has a beta of 0.06, meaning that its share price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TeleTech has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Future Farm Technologies and TeleTech”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Future Farm Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
TeleTech	$2.14 billion	0.07	-$192.47 million	($3.97)	-0.83

Future Farm Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TeleTech.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

38.0% of TeleTech shares are held by institutional investors. 59.4% of TeleTech shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Future Farm Technologies and TeleTech’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Future Farm Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
TeleTech	-9.01%	16.24%	2.39%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Future Farm Technologies and TeleTech, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Future Farm Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
TeleTech	1	2	0	1	2.25

Given Future Farm Technologies’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Future Farm Technologies is more favorable than TeleTech.

Summary

TeleTech beats Future Farm Technologies on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Future Farm Technologies

Future Farm Technologies Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in indoor plant growth technology; and production of wholesale and retail cannabis products in North America. The company manufactures and distributes LED lighting bulbs, fixtures, lamps, retrofits, and other products for the commercial and residential applications through its Website, LEDCanada.com; and packaging for LED light engine through COBGrowlights.com. It also offers vertical farming solutions. In addition, the company sells cannabis biomass, seeds, and oil from hemp; and operates ornamental plant greenhouse. The company was formerly known as Arcturus Growthstar Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Future Farm Technologies Inc. in February 2017. Future Farm Technologies Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

About TeleTech

TTEC Holdings, Inc. operates as a customer experience (CX) company that designs, builds, and operates technology-enabled customer experiences across digital and live interaction channels. It operates through two segments, TTEC Digital and TTEC Engage. The TTEC Digital segment provides CX technologies for contact center as a service, customer relationship management, and artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics; creates and implements strategic CX transformation roadmaps; sells, operates, and provides managed services for cloud platforms and premise based CX technologies; creates proprietary IP to support industry specific and custom client needs; and offers CX consulting services. The TTEC Engage segment provides digitally enabled CX operational and managed services; delivers data-driven omnichannel customer care, customer acquisition, growth and retention services, tech support, trust and safety, and back-office solutions; and offers solutions for AI operations, including data annotation and labeling. It serves clients in the healthcare, automotive, government, financial services, communication, technology, travel, logistics, media and entertainment, e-tail/retail, and transportation industries with operations in the United States, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. The company was formerly known as TeleTech Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to TTEC Holdings, Inc. in January 2018. TTEC Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado.