Leafly (NASDAQ:LFLY – Get Free Report) and MongoDB (NASDAQ:MDB – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and risk.
Risk and Volatility
Leafly has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MongoDB has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Leafly and MongoDB, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Leafly | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
| MongoDB | 1 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 2.75 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
15.6% of Leafly shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.3% of MongoDB shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of Leafly shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of MongoDB shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Leafly and MongoDB”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Leafly | $35.87 million | 0.11 | -$9.50 million | ($2.32) | -0.55 |
| MongoDB | $1.92 billion | 10.30 | -$176.60 million | ($2.74) | -97.51 |
Leafly has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MongoDB. MongoDB is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leafly, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Leafly and MongoDB’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Leafly | -14.65% | N/A | -25.26% |
| MongoDB | -10.46% | -12.22% | -5.19% |
Summary
MongoDB beats Leafly on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Leafly
Leafly Holdings, Inc. owns and operates a platform to provide consumers with cannabis information and connects consumers to cannabis brands and licensed retailers. The company offers subscription-based marketplace listings, digital advertising solutions, and software as a service-based tools to cannabis retailers; and information, reviews, menus, and ordering and delivery options to its audience through its website and mobile applications. Leafly Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
About MongoDB
MongoDB, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides general purpose database platform worldwide. The company provides MongoDB Atlas, a hosted multi-cloud database-as-a-service solution; MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, a commercial database server for enterprise customers to run in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment; and Community Server, a free-to-download version of its database, which includes the functionality that developers need to get started with MongoDB. It offers professional services comprising consulting and training. The company was formerly known as 10gen, Inc. and changed its name to MongoDB, Inc. in August 2013. MongoDB, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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