Head-To-Head Contrast: Meiwu Technology (NYSE:WNW) & Boxed (NYSE:BOXD)

Meiwu Technology (NYSE:WNW – Get Rating) and Boxed (NYSE:BOXD – Get Rating) are both small-cap 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

Meiwu Technology has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boxed has a beta of 2.81, meaning that its share price is 181% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Meiwu Technology and Boxed’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Meiwu Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A
Boxed	-75.33%	N/A	-71.75%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Meiwu Technology and Boxed, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Meiwu Technology	0	0	0	0	N/A
Boxed	0	1	1	0	2.50

Boxed has a consensus target price of $2.23, suggesting a potential upside of 2,111.22%. Given Boxed’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Boxed is more favorable than Meiwu Technology.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.6% of Meiwu Technology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.5% of Boxed shares are held by institutional investors. 10.0% of Boxed 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.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Meiwu Technology and Boxed’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Meiwu Technology	$12.26 million	0.47	-$1.08 million	N/A	N/A
Boxed	$177.27 million	0.04	-$69.22 million	($3.02)	-0.03

Meiwu Technology has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Boxed.

Summary

Boxed beats Meiwu Technology on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Meiwu Technology

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Meiwu Technology Company Limited operates as an online and mobile commerce company in the People's Republic of China. The company operates through Clean Food Platform, Restaurant, and others segments. The company offers green food, organic food, intangible cultural heritage food, agricultural products, and pollution-free products. It also engages the provision of restaurant services; and wholesale of agricultural products. The company was formerly known as Wunong Net Technology Company Limited and changes its name to Meiwu Technology Company Limited in August 2021. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.

About Boxed

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Boxed, Inc. operates as an e-commerce retailer and an e-commerce enabler in the continental United States. The company through its e-commerce retail service provides branded and private labelled bulk pantry consumables, such as paper products, snacks, beverages, cleaning supplies, etc. to B2C and B2B customers, vendors, and enterprise retailers, as well as household customers. It also provides Boxed IQ, a content management suite, programmatic cost-per-click ad-platform, and vendor portal data suite, that offers vendors, suppliers, and CPG manufacturers the ability to advertise their products to customers, and access customer data and feedback in real-time; on-demand grocery services; and an enterprise-level e-commerce platform. Boxed, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.