CEA Industries (NASDAQ:CEAD – Get Free Report) and OLB Group (NASDAQ:OLB – Get Free Report) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
21.6% of CEA Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.8% of OLB Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of CEA Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 60.2% of OLB Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings for CEA Industries and OLB Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| CEA Industries | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| OLB Group | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| CEA Industries | $3.28 million | 0.77 | -$2.91 million | ($4.23) | -0.74 |
| OLB Group | $7.02 million | 1.02 | -$5.87 million | ($0.29) | -1.03 |
CEA Industries has higher earnings, but lower revenue than OLB Group. OLB Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CEA Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares CEA Industries and OLB Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| CEA Industries | -118.08% | -27.79% | -24.75% |
| OLB Group | -68.26% | -76.38% | -35.87% |
Risk & Volatility
CEA Industries has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OLB Group has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
OLB Group beats CEA Industries on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About CEA Industries
CEA Industries Inc. provides environmental control, and other technologies and services to the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) industry worldwide. It offers floor plans and architectural design for cultivation facilities; licensed mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering services for commercial scale environmental control systems that are specific to cultivation facilities; and process cooling systems and other climate control systems. The company also provides air handling equipment and systems; LED lighting; benching and racking solutions for indoor cultivation; automation and control devices, systems, and technologies for environmental, lighting, and climate control applications; and preventive maintenance services for CEA facilities. It serves commercial, as well as state- and provincial-regulated CEA growers. The company was formerly known as Surna Inc. and changed its name to CEA Industries Inc. in November 2021. CEA Industries Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado.
About OLB Group
The OLB Group, Inc. is a diversified fintech e-commerce merchant services provider and Bitcoin crypto mining enterprise. The Company’s eCommerce platform delivers e-commerce services for a digital commerce solution to over 10,500 merchants in all 50 states. The Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, DMINT, Inc, is engaged in the mining of Bitcoin utilizing low carbon natural gas with over 1,000 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)-based S19j Pro 96T mining computers. www.olb.com and www.olb.com/investors-data.
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