Green Thumb Industries (OTCMKTS:GTBIF – Get Free Report) and Lendway (NASDAQ:LDWY – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Profitability
This table compares Green Thumb Industries and Lendway’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Green Thumb Industries | 5.38% | 3.39% | 2.32% |
| Lendway | N/A | -21.56% | -4.32% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Green Thumb Industries and Lendway, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Green Thumb Industries | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3.60 |
| Lendway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
0.1% of Green Thumb Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Lendway shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Green Thumb Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Lendway 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.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Green Thumb Industries and Lendway”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Green Thumb Industries | $1.05 billion | 1.55 | $36.27 million | $0.27 | 28.67 |
| Lendway | $31.58 million | 0.25 | $2.41 million | ($1.98) | -2.29 |
Green Thumb Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Lendway. Lendway is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Green Thumb Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Green Thumb Industries has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lendway has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Green Thumb Industries beats Lendway on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Green Thumb Industries
Green Thumb Industries Inc. manufactures, distributes, markets, and sells of cannabis products for medical and adult-use in the United States. It operates through two segments, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods. The company offers cannabis flower; processed and packaged products, including pre-rolls, concentrates, vapes, capsules, tinctures, edibles, topicals, and other cannabis-related products under the &Shine, Beboe, Dogwalkers, Doctor Solomon's, Good Green, incredibles, and RHYTHM brands. It distributes its products primarily to third-party retail customers and sells finished products directly to consumers in its own retail stores, as well as direct-to consumer delivery channel. Green Thumb Industries Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
About Lendway
Lendway, Inc. operates as a specialty agricultural and finance company focusing on making and managing its agricultural investments in the United States and internationally. It owns and operates FarmlandCredit.com, a non-bank lending business that seeks to purchase existing loans and/or originate and fund new loans domestically. The company was formerly known as Insignia Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Lendway, Inc. in August 2023. The company was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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