Critical Review: Boohoo Group (OTCMKTS:BHOOY) & OLB Group (NASDAQ:OLB)

OLB Group (NASDAQ:OLB) and Boohoo Group (OTCMKTS:BHOOY) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for OLB Group and Boohoo Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
OLB Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
Boohoo Group	0	0	0	0	0.00

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares OLB Group and Boohoo Group”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
OLB Group	$9.64 million	0.90	-$11.23 million	($3.56)	-0.28
Boohoo Group	$1.01 billion	0.50	-$415.90 million	N/A	N/A

OLB Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Boohoo Group.

Profitability

This table compares OLB Group and Boohoo Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
OLB Group	-92.68%	-208.53%	-71.73%
Boohoo Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

3.8% of OLB Group shares are held by institutional investors. 60.2% of OLB Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

OLB Group has a beta of 2.03, meaning that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boohoo Group has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

OLB Group beats Boohoo Group on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Boohoo Group

boohoo group plc, through its subsidiaries, operates as an online clothing retailer in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the United States, and internationally. The company designs, sources, markets, and sells clothing, shoes, accessories, and beauty products for 16-to-45-year age customers. It provides its products under the boohoo, boohooMAN, PrettyLittleThing, Nasty Gal, MissPap, Karen Millen, Coast, Oasis, Warehouse, Dorothy Perkins, Wallis, Burton, and Debenhams brands. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Manchester, the United Kingdom.