Future FinTech Group (NASDAQ:FTFT – Get Rating ) and Xometry (NASDAQ:XMTR – Get Rating ) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.
Insider and institutional ownership
6.3% of the shares in Future FinTech Group are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.3% of Xometry shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Future FinTech Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is ready for long-term growth.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Future FinTech Group and Xometry, provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell reviews | Hold assessments | Buy reviews | Strong buy ratings | Assessment points | |
| The FinTech Group of the future | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NOW |
| Xometry | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.00 am |
Xometry has a consensus target price of $50.75, suggesting a potential upside of 21.01%. Given Xometry’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Xometry is more favorable than Future FinTech Group.
Risk and volatility
Future FinTech Group has a beta of 1.21, which suggests that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. In comparison, Xometry has a beta of 0.38, which suggests that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500 .
Valuation and earnings
This table compares Future FinTech Group and Xometry’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross income | Price/sales ratio | Net income | Earnings per share | Price/income ratio | |
| Future FinTech Group | $25.05 million | 1.48 | -$13.60 million | NOW | NOW |
| Xometry | 218.34 million dollars | 8.51 | -$61.38 million | ($2.75) | -15.25 |
Future FinTech Group has higher earnings but lower revenue than Xometry.
Profitability
This table compares Future FinTech Group and Xometry’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net margins | Return on equity | Return on assets | |
| Future FinTech Group | -54.39% | -17.26% | -15.36% |
| Xometry | -27.47% | -23.42% | -14.08% |
Summary
Xometry beats Future FinTech Group on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Future FinTech Group
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Future FinTech Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates online shopping platforms in the People’s Republic of China. It operates in four segments: Shared Mall Membership Fee, Fruit Related Products, Merchandise Sale and Others. The company operates Chain Cloud Mall (CCM), a real-name blockchain-based e-commerce platform that integrates blockchain and internet technologies; and NONOGIRL, a cross-border e-commerce platform. It also engages in supply chain financing and coal and aluminum ingot trading; financial technology service; and cryptocurrency market data and information services businesses, as well as services related to the application and development of blockchain-based technology in financial technology. The company was formerly known as SkyPeople Fruit Juice, Inc. and changed its name to Future FinTech Group Inc. in June 2017. Future FinTech Group Inc. is headquartered in New York, New York.
About Xometry
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Xometry, Inc. operates a marketplace that enables buyers to purchase manufactured parts and assemblies in the United States and internationally. It offers CNC machining, milling and turning services; sheet, laser, water jet and plasma cutting services; and plate forming services. The company also offers 3D printing services, such as carbon digital light synthesis, fused deposition modeling, HP multijet fusion, PolyJet, selective laser sintering, stereolithography, 3D metal printing service, direct metal laser sintering and metal binder beam; and injection moulding, including plastic injection, over, insert and prototype moulding, as well as bridge and production tooling. In addition, it offers other services that include urethane and die casting, vapor smoothing, finishing, rapid prototyping, high volume manufacturing and assembly services. The company offers its products under the brands Allied Machine & Engineering, Brubaker, HTC, OSG, Kyocera, Mitsubishi Materials, SOWA, Viking Drill & Tool, Dauphin and Sandvik. It serves the aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer products, product designers, education, electronics and semiconductor, energy, hardware startup, industrial, medical and dental, robotics, and supply chain and procurement industries. The company was formerly known as NextLine Manufacturing Corp. and changed its name to Xometry, Inc. in June 2015. Xometry, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Derwood, Maryland.
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