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Guardforce AI (GFAI) Competitors

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$2.02 +0.10 (+5.21%)
As of 01/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

GFAI vs. INUV, FORA, YYGH, BGSF, WKEY, MOBQ, VIVK, FLNT, PIXY, and SGRP

Should you be buying Guardforce AI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guardforce AI include Inuvo (INUV), Forian (FORA), YY Group (YYGH), BGSF (BGSF), WISeKey International (WKEY), Mobiquity Technologies (MOBQ), Vivakor (VIVK), Fluent (FLNT), ShiftPixy (PIXY), and SPAR Group (SGRP). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Guardforce AI vs.

Guardforce AI (NASDAQ:GFAI) and Inuvo (NYSE:INUV) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.

Guardforce AI has a beta of 2.56, meaning that its stock price is 156% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inuvo has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Inuvo had 2 more articles in the media than Guardforce AI. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Inuvo and 1 mentions for Guardforce AI. Inuvo's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Guardforce AI's score of -0.14 indicating that Inuvo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Guardforce AI
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Inuvo
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Inuvo has a consensus target price of $1.00, indicating a potential upside of 124.67%. Given Inuvo's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Inuvo is more favorable than Guardforce AI.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Guardforce AI
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
4.00
Inuvo
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.50

Inuvo has higher revenue and earnings than Guardforce AI.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Guardforce AI$36.28M0.57-$29.57MN/AN/A
Inuvo$73.91M0.85-$10.39M-$0.06-7.42

Guardforce AI and Inuvo both received 2 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Guardforce AI an outperform vote while only 2.44% of users gave Inuvo an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Guardforce AIOutperform Votes
2
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
InuvoOutperform Votes
2
2.44%
Underperform Votes
80
97.56%

Guardforce AI has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Inuvo's net margin of -10.59%. Guardforce AI's return on equity of 0.00% beat Inuvo's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Guardforce AIN/A N/A N/A
Inuvo -10.59%-57.24%-27.77%

2.0% of Guardforce AI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.4% of Inuvo shares are owned by institutional investors. 76.7% of Guardforce AI shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Inuvo shares are owned 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.

Summary

Inuvo beats Guardforce AI on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GFAI vs. The Competition

MetricGuardforce AIDetective & armored car services IndustryIndustrial SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$20.69M$3.65B$9.46B$9.14B
Dividend YieldN/A2.36%2.19%4.02%
P/E RatioN/A5.6921.6317.36
Price / Sales0.571.194.6877.11
Price / Cash6.568.1718.4035.97
Price / Book0.793.824.754.79
Net Income-$29.57M$194.54M$403.01M$225.00M
7 Day Performance14.12%5.02%4.35%2.62%
1 Month Performance85.32%23.17%5.15%3.81%
1 Year Performance-7.34%4.45%39.20%20.10%

Guardforce AI Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GFAI
Guardforce AI
0.8492 of 5 stars
$2.02
+5.2%
N/A-7.3%$20.69M$36.28M0.001,594
INUV
Inuvo
2.3179 of 5 stars
$0.49
-11.8%
$1.00
+103.1%
+11.6%$69.18M$78.45M-8.2180Gap Down
FORA
Forian
2.7126 of 5 stars
$2.01
-2.0%
$5.00
+148.8%
-22.0%$62.34M$19.71M-22.33140
YYGH
YY Group
N/A$1.49
-2.6%
N/AN/A$58.74M$37.37M0.00N/AGap Up
BGSF
BGSF
1.9705 of 5 stars
$5.23
-3.3%
N/A-45.4%$57.66M$281.66M-52.29400Analyst Forecast
WKEY
WISeKey International
1.5187 of 5 stars
$8.40
-16.7%
$4.00
-52.4%
+240.7%$56.57M$20.99M0.00140Gap Down
MOBQ
Mobiquity Technologies
N/A$2.76
-11.8%
N/A+593.3%$51.66M$1.24M-2.4610
VIVK
Vivakor
0.7041 of 5 stars
$1.25
+11.1%
N/A+6.1%$51.26M$61.99M-2.9120Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
FLNT
Fluent
2.3207 of 5 stars
$2.68
+1.9%
$4.00
+49.3%
-22.5%$45.23M$261.98M-1.49260Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
PIXY
ShiftPixy
N/A$6.53
flat
N/AN/A$44.12M$15.02M0.0060
SGRP
SPAR Group
3.2736 of 5 stars
$1.84
-2.6%
N/A+77.7%$43.15M$228.87M3.6124,288

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