Financial Review: Firefly Neuroscience (NASDAQ:AIFF) vs. Taoping (NASDAQ:TAOP)

Volatility & Risk

Firefly Neuroscience has a beta of 3.05, suggesting that its share price is 205% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Taoping has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Firefly Neuroscience and Taoping”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Firefly Neuroscience	$7.98 million	3.46	-$2.03 million	N/A	N/A
Taoping	$38.64 million	0.12	-$700,000.00	N/A	N/A

Taoping has higher revenue and earnings than Firefly Neuroscience.

Profitability

This table compares Firefly Neuroscience and Taoping’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Firefly Neuroscience	-73.72%	-276.50%	-133.02%
Taoping	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

5.0% of Firefly Neuroscience shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.0% of Taoping shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Firefly Neuroscience shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.4% of Taoping shares are held by company 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

Taoping beats Firefly Neuroscience on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Firefly Neuroscience

Firefly Neuroscience, Inc., a medical technology and artificial intelligence company, provides neuroscientific solutions that improve outcomes for patients with mental illnesses and neurological disorders. The company offers Brain Network Analytics, a software that focuses on diagnostic and treatment for people suffering from mental illnesses and cognitive disorders, including depression, dementia, anxiety disorders, concussions, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. It serves pharmaceutical companies and medical practitioners. Firefly Neuroscience, Inc. is based in Toronto, Canada.

About Taoping

Taoping Inc. provides cloud-based platform, resource sharing, and big data solutions to the Chinese new media, education residential community management, and elevator Internet of Things (IoT) industries in the People's Republic of China. It operates through Cloud-Based Technology and Traditional Information Technology segments. The company offers cloud-based software as a service to automate the interactive workflows between advertising agencies and their customers, including establishing new advertising projects, submitting advertisement proposals, revising and approving advertising proposals, processing payment online, remotely uploading advertisement content, and tracking and analyzing performance data. It also provides project-based technology products and services for the public sector; and software and hardware with integrated solutions, such as information technology infrastructure, internet-enabled display technologies, and IoT platforms to customers in government, education, residential community management, media, transportation, and other private sectors, as well as related maintenance and support services. In addition, the company offers cloud-application-terminal, IoT technology based digital advertising distribution network, and media resource sharing platform in the out-of-home advertising markets. Further, it operates Taoping Net, an advertising-resources trading service platform, which connect screen owners, advertisers, and consumers; and Taoping App that enable customers to distribute and manage ads from mobile terminals. The company was formerly known as China Information Technology, Inc. and changed its name to Taoping Inc. in June 2018. Taoping Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.