Contrasting Dolphin Digital Media (NASDAQ:DLPN) & Helport AI (NASDAQ:HPAI)

Dolphin Digital Media (NASDAQ:DLPN) and Helport AI (NASDAQ:HPAI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.

Volatility & Risk

Dolphin Digital Media has a beta of 2.34, meaning that its share price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Helport AI has a beta of -0.21, meaning that its share price is 121% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

8.9% of Dolphin Digital Media shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.4% of Helport AI shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.3% of Dolphin Digital Media shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Helport AI shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Dolphin Digital Media and Helport AI, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Dolphin Digital Media	1	0	1	0	2.00
Helport AI	1	0	0	0	1.00

Dolphin Digital Media currently has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 210.56%. Given Dolphin Digital Media’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Dolphin Digital Media is more favorable than Helport AI.

Profitability

This table compares Dolphin Digital Media and Helport AI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Dolphin Digital Media	-28.08%	-62.59%	-11.41%
Helport AI	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Dolphin Digital Media and Helport AI”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Dolphin Digital Media	$51.69 million	0.37	-$12.60 million	($1.29)	-1.25
Helport AI	$29.58 million	3.82	$7.37 million	N/A	N/A

Helport AI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Dolphin Digital Media.

About Dolphin Digital Media

Dolphin Entertainment, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an independent entertainment marketing and production company in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Entertainment Publicity, and Marketing and Content Production. The Entertainment Publicity and Marketing segment provides diversified marketing services, including public relations, entertainment and hospitality content marketing, strategic communications, strategic marketing consulting, social media and influencer marketing, digital marketing, creative branding, talent publicity, and entertainment marketing services, as well as produces promotional video content. The Content Production segment produces and distributes feature films and digital content. In addition, it offers strategic marketing and publicity services to individuals and corporates in the entertainment, hospitality, and music industries; and marketing direction, public relations counsel, and media strategy for video game publishers, as well as eSports leagues and other entities in the gaming industry. The company was formerly known as Dolphin Digital Media, Inc. and changed its name to Dolphin Entertainment, Inc. in July 2017. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.

About Helport AI

Helport AI Ltd. engages in the development of intelligent products, solutions, and a digital platform for customer contact centers. The firm offers AI Assist, a software that provides tailored AI-powered guidance and oversight for contact center interactions and customer experience, with functions including agent assistant, quality assurance (QA) assistant, supervisor assistant, and knowledge base assistant. It also operates Helphub Crowdsourcing Platform, an AI integrated contact center business process outsourcing (BPO) platform that serves both companies providing and seeking BPO services. The company was founded in September 2020 and is headquartered in Singapore.