LMFA vs. ANY, WVFC, KFFB, SHFS, GRYP, MCVT, GREE, NRBO, JFU, and SLNH
Should you be buying LM Funding America stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LM Funding America include Sphere 3D (ANY), WVS Financial (WVFC), Kentucky First Federal Bancorp (KFFB), SHF (SHFS), Gryphon Digital Mining (GRYP), Mill City Ventures III (MCVT), Greenidge Generation (GREE), NeuroBo Pharmaceuticals (NRBO), 9F (JFU), and Soluna (SLNH). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
LM Funding America vs.
LM Funding America (NASDAQ:LMFA) and Sphere 3D (NASDAQ:ANY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
Sphere 3D has a net margin of -50.87% compared to LM Funding America's net margin of -96.23%. LM Funding America's return on equity of -35.84% beat Sphere 3D's return on equity.
22.7% of LM Funding America shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.3% of Sphere 3D shares are held by institutional investors. 36.1% of LM Funding America shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of Sphere 3D shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
LM Funding America has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sphere 3D. Sphere 3D is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LM Funding America, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LM Funding America has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sphere 3D has a beta of 2.99, indicating that its share price is 199% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sphere 3D has a consensus price target of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 187.08%. Given Sphere 3D's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sphere 3D is more favorable than LM Funding America.
In the previous week, LM Funding America had 5 more articles in the media than Sphere 3D. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for LM Funding America and 0 mentions for Sphere 3D. LM Funding America's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Sphere 3D's score of 0.50 indicating that LM Funding America is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sphere 3D received 215 more outperform votes than LM Funding America when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.79% of users gave Sphere 3D an outperform vote while only 56.56% of users gave LM Funding America an outperform vote.
Summary
Sphere 3D beats LM Funding America on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LMFA) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
