Contrasting Oxford Square Capital (NASDAQ:OXSQ) and Surna (OTCMKTS:SRNA)

Surna (OTCMKTS:SRNA) and Oxford Square Capital (NASDAQ:OXSQ) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Surna and Oxford Square Capital”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Surna	N/A	N/A	N/A	($0.01)	-328.07
Oxford Square Capital	$40.34 million	3.45	-$18.73 million	($0.45)	-3.31

Surna has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Oxford Square Capital. Surna is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oxford Square Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Surna and Oxford Square Capital’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Surna	N/A	N/A	N/A
Oxford Square Capital	-93.65%	14.23%	6.76%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Surna and Oxford Square Capital, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Surna	0	0	0	0	0.00
Oxford Square Capital	1	0	0	0	1.00

Institutional & Insider Ownership

9.8% of Surna shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.4% of Oxford Square Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Surna shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Oxford Square Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Oxford Square Capital beats Surna on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Surna

Surna Inc. designs, engineers, and sells environmental control and other technologies for controlled environment agriculture to state- and provincial-regulated cannabis cultivators in the United States, Canada, and internationally. Its products and services include liquid-based process cooling systems and other climate control systems; air handling equipment and systems; a full-service engineering package for designing and engineering commercial scale thermodynamic systems for cannabis cultivation facilities; and automation and control devices, systems, and technologies used for environmental, lighting, and climate control. The company also offers mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering services; develops and sells a four-pipe environmental control system with Surna branded fan coil units and custom air handlers; and develops destratification fans, as well as provides facility retrofit services. Surna Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

About Oxford Square Capital

Oxford Square Capital Corp. is a business development company, operates as a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. It is a private equity and mezzanine firm. The firm invests in both public and private companies. It invests in secured and unsecured senior debt, subordinated debt, junior subordinated debt, preferred stock, common stock and syndicated bank loans. The firm primarily invests in debt and/or equity securities of technology-related companies that operate in the computer software, Internet, information technology infrastructure and services, media, telecommunications and telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, hardware, technology-enabled services, semiconductor capital equipment, medical device technology, diversified technology, and networking systems sectors. It concentrates its investments in companies having annual revenues of less than $200 million and a market capitalization or enterprise value of less than $300 million. The firm invests between $5 million and $30 million per transaction. It seeks to exit its investments within 7 years. It serves as the investment adviser to TICC. Oxford Square Capital Corp., formerly known as TICC Capital Corp., was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.