Contrasting Leafbuyer Technologies (OTCMKTS:LBUY) & Gorilla Technology Group (NASDAQ:GRRR)

Leafbuyer Technologies (OTCMKTS:LBUY) and Gorilla Technology Group (NASDAQ:GRRR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

Volatility and Risk

Leafbuyer Technologies has a beta of 2.54, suggesting that its share price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gorilla Technology Group has a beta of -0.24, suggesting that its share price is 124% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Leafbuyer Technologies and Gorilla Technology Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Leafbuyer Technologies	$6.47 million	0.25	$260,000.00	N/A	N/A
Gorilla Technology Group	$74.67 million	3.19	-$64.79 million	$0.27	43.78

Leafbuyer Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gorilla Technology Group.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Leafbuyer Technologies and Gorilla Technology Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Leafbuyer Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
Gorilla Technology Group	1	1	0	1	2.33

Gorilla Technology Group has a consensus price target of $35.50, indicating a potential upside of 200.34%. Given Gorilla Technology Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gorilla Technology Group is more favorable than Leafbuyer Technologies.

Profitability

This table compares Leafbuyer Technologies and Gorilla Technology Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Leafbuyer Technologies	4.23%	-15.35%	20.01%
Gorilla Technology Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional & Insider Ownership

11.0% of Leafbuyer Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of Gorilla Technology Group shares are held by institutional investors. 25.8% of Leafbuyer Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.5% of Gorilla Technology Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Gorilla Technology Group beats Leafbuyer Technologies on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Leafbuyer Technologies

Leafbuyer Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiary, LB Media Group, LLC, provides online resources for cannabis deals and specials in the United States. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

About Gorilla Technology Group

Gorilla Technology Group Inc. provides video intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) security, and edge content management hardware, software, and services in the Asia Pacific region. The company operates through three segments: Video IoT, Security Convergence, and Other segments. It offers intelligent video analytics AI models for various verticals, such as behavioral analytics, people/face recognition, vehicle analysis, object recognition, and business intelligence that can scan video for patterns and distinguish specific items using AI algorithms and metadata. The company also provides information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) security convergence AI algorithms for system administrators and security engineers to detect suspicious behaviors in real time; network anomaly detection AI models; and endpoint malware and suspicious behavior detection AI models. In addition, it offers intelligent video analytics (IVA) appliances to analyze and turn unstructured video and picture data into structured data; IVAR appliance that provides insight into business and operations in a statistic dashboard; smart attendance to track employee health and safety, work hours, clock-ins/outs, and absenteeism, as well as to protect company assets and intellectual properties; event and video management system appliances to store event/object attributes in temporal-spatial big data database from Gorilla; and operation technology security appliance to monitor and control physical devices, processes, and infrastructure, as well as to protect industrial systems and networks from various threats. Further, the company provides smart retail SaaS for shopper demographics, visualized shopper behavior, and advanced data analytics, smart city and transportation SaaS for traffic management, public safety, and planning data; and endpoint security SaaS that protects endpoints against security threats. Gorilla Technology Group Inc. is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.