Future FinTech Group (NASDAQ:FTFT) & D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading (NASDAQ:HEPS) Head to Head Contrast

D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading (NASDAQ:HEPS) and Future FinTech Group (NASDAQ:FTFT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading and Future FinTech Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading	1	4	0	0	1.80
Future FinTech Group	1	0	0	0	1.00

D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading presently has a consensus target price of $3.29, indicating a potential upside of 29.59%. Given D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading is more favorable than Future FinTech Group.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

40.5% of D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Future FinTech Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.3% of D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Future FinTech Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading and Future FinTech Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading	$1.74 billion	0.47	-$48.95 million	($0.25)	-10.14
Future FinTech Group	$2.16 million	8.82	-$32.96 million	($13.38)	-0.07

Future FinTech Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading. D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Future FinTech Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading and Future FinTech Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading	-5.42%	-113.69%	-10.63%
Future FinTech Group	-1,038.07%	-303.80%	-192.64%

Volatility and Risk

D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading has a beta of 2.31, suggesting that its share price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Future FinTech Group has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading beats Future FinTech Group on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading

D-Market Elektronik Hizmetler ve Ticaret A.S. operates e-commerce platforms in Turkey. The company operates www.hepsiburada.com, a retail website that provides its retail customers a range of merchandise, including electronics and non-electronics products, such as books, sports, toys, kids and baby products, cosmetics, furniture, etc. It also offers Hepsiburada Market, an app-in-app initiative and on-demand delivery service that delivers groceries and water; HepsiJet that provides last-mile delivery services; HepsiLojistik, which offers storage and fulfillment services; HepsiMat, an offline network of pick-up and drop-off point; HepsiAd that provides advertising service; HepsiGlobal for discovering and purchasing products from international merchants online; Hepsipay, which offers an e-money and payment services; and Hepsiburada Seyahat for buying airline tickets online. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.

About Future FinTech Group

Future FinTech Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates online shopping platforms in People’s Republic of China. It operates in three segments: Supply Chain Financing Service and Trading Business, Asset Management Service, and Others. The company offers cross-border money transfer service, brokerage and investment banking, and cryptocurrency mining farm business. It also engages in the trading of coal, aluminum ingots, sand, and steel; and E-commerce, digital wallet safety management, blockchain code auditing and operations, cryptocurrency mining, metaverse and big data maintenance services. 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.