Comparing Clover Leaf Capital (NASDAQ:CLOE) and Everi (NYSE:EVRI)

Clover Leaf Capital (NASDAQ:CLOE) and Everi (NYSE:EVRI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Clover Leaf Capital and Everi, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Clover Leaf Capital	0	0	0	0	0.00
Everi	0	5	0	0	2.00

Everi has a consensus target price of $12.88, indicating a potential downside of 4.84%. Given Everi’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Everi is more favorable than Clover Leaf Capital.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Clover Leaf Capital and Everi”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Clover Leaf Capital	N/A	N/A	-$1.05 million	($0.23)	-54.22
Everi	$760.42 million	1.53	$84.00 million	$0.15	90.20

Everi has higher revenue and earnings than Clover Leaf Capital. Clover Leaf Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Everi, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Clover Leaf Capital has a beta of 0.07, indicating that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Everi has a beta of 2.06, indicating that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Clover Leaf Capital and Everi’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Clover Leaf Capital	N/A	N/A	-9.57%
Everi	1.72%	5.47%	0.62%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

18.5% of Clover Leaf Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Everi shares are held by institutional investors. 81.2% of Clover Leaf Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Everi shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Everi beats Clover Leaf Capital on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Clover Leaf Capital

Clover Leaf Capital Corp. does not have significant operations. The company focuses on effecting a merger, stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, and other business combination with one or more businesses. It intends to acquire companies operating in the cannabis industry. The company was incorporated in 2021 and is based in Miami, Florida.

About Everi

Everi Holdings Inc. develops and supplies entertaining game content, gaming machines, and gaming systems and services for land-based and iGaming operators in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It operates in Games and Financial Technology Solutions segments. The company offers classic mechanical reel games and video reel games, as well as TournEvent of Champions, a national slot tournament; and sells gaming equipment and player terminals, licenses, game content, and ancillary equipment, such as signage and lighting packages. It also provides financial access services, such as funds dispensed and transmitted, credit card and POS debit card financial access transactions; check warranty; CashClub, a software payments platform that provides gaming operators with a personal computer workstation software user interface and point-of-sale terminal; CashClub Wallet, a digital payments platform for gaming operators; fully integrated kiosks that provide multiple functions to gaming operators on their casino floors; loyalty kiosk and related equipment; and other integrated kiosk solutions. In addition, the company offers non-funds dispensing terminals that perform authorizations for credit card financial access and POS debit card financial access transactions; and ancillary marketing and database services. Further, it provides Everi Compliance, a anti-money laundering management tool; Central Credit, a gaming patron credit bureau service; JackpotXpress, a jackpot payout and tax form management platform; and Loyalty platform, a software platform to adopt and deliver new promotional strategies, as well as support and maintenance services. It offers products for the casino, sports, entertainment, and hospitality industries. The company was formerly known as Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Everi Holdings Inc. in August 2015. Everi Holdings Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.