Reviewing Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE:PIPR) and Gemini Space Station (NASDAQ:GEMI)

Gemini Space Station (NASDAQ:GEMI) and Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE:PIPR) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

72.8% of Piper Sandler Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Piper Sandler Companies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Gemini Space Station and Piper Sandler Companies, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gemini Space Station	1	8	5	0	2.29
Piper Sandler Companies	1	2	2	1	2.50

Gemini Space Station currently has a consensus price target of $20.08, suggesting a potential upside of 165.65%. Piper Sandler Companies has a consensus price target of $389.67, suggesting a potential upside of 20.51%. Given Gemini Space Station’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Gemini Space Station is more favorable than Piper Sandler Companies.

Profitability

This table compares Gemini Space Station and Piper Sandler Companies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gemini Space Station	N/A	N/A	N/A
Piper Sandler Companies	14.77%	22.50%	15.90%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Gemini Space Station and Piper Sandler Companies”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gemini Space Station	N/A	N/A	N/A	($1.81)	-4.18
Piper Sandler Companies	$1.90 billion	3.00	$281.33 million	$15.81	20.45

Piper Sandler Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Gemini Space Station. Gemini Space Station is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Piper Sandler Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Piper Sandler Companies beats Gemini Space Station on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Gemini Space Station

Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom. Gemini envisions a future where crypto will redesign the global financial system, the internet, and money in a way that provides greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all. As a trusted bridge between the traditional financial system and the emerging cryptoeconomy, we are providing access for individuals and institutions to a decentralized future that is more open, fair, and secure. Gemini was founded in 2014 to be the most trusted, secure, and easy way to buy, sell, and store crypto assets. As of July 31, 2025, we serve approximately 549,000 MTUs and approximately 10,000 institutions in over 60 countries, with over $21 billion of assets on our platform, over $285 billion in lifetime trading volume, and over $830 billion in transfers processed on our platform. Since our founding, we have watched the overall crypto market capitalization expand from under $10 billion to over $3 trillion as users discover the onchain world. Our core exchange product has expanded over time to become a comprehensive platform for our users to engage with the cryptoeconomy, including a derivatives exchange, staking services, an over-the-counter (“OTC”) trading desk, institutional-grade custody, a New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”)-regulated stablecoin, a U.S. credit card, and a Web3 studio for NFTs. We support a large variety of crypto assets on our platform, including bitcoin, ether, and stablecoins. We strive to deliver a seamless user experience to both retail and institutional users: • Retail: We often serve as a primary gateway for individual retail users into the cryptoeconomy. We provide a user-friendly, secure platform and mobile app for users to buy, sell, store, stake, and transfer a variety of crypto assets. Our products aim to suit the needs of beginners and sophisticated users alike. • Institutional: We provide institutional investors, including asset managers, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and corporations with a robust and secure platform to access crypto markets. We offer advanced trading, OTC trading, and institutional-grade custody. On the Gemini platform, a user can begin their crypto journey with $1 or $1 million and engage with our continually updated educational materials to learn about all aspects of the cryptoeconomy. Since our founding, we have sought to adhere to high standards of security, regulation, and compliance. We operate exchanges through regulated entities in the United States and abroad. In addition, we offer digital asset custody services through Gemini Trust, a New York limited purpose trust company. All customer assets are held in full on our platform, ensuring every unit of cryptocurrency or fiat held by a user is available to the user. We hold money transmission licenses (“MTLs”) or the statutory equivalent in all states that require such licenses so that we are able to operate in all 50 states and have direct access to fiat banking rails. We believe our early focus on security and compliance has made us one of the most trusted brands in crypto and on-ramps into the cryptoeconomy. Our crypto-native technology stack at the core of our platform enables us to support advanced functionality and complex blockchain integrations while serving the demands of a global, 24/7/365 crypto market. Our proprietary, in-house custody solutions enable us to offer products that are both secure and easy to use. This approach to security, innovation, and an elegant user experience has created a powerful flywheel effect. Our product innovation and security have attracted a growing, loyal user base, which has allowed us to reinvest in new, innovative products at the forefront of a complex and rapidly growing industry. This furthers our competitive position and helps solidify us as one of the leading on-ramps into the cryptoeconomy. We have grown to a significant scale since our founding and continue to benefit from a loyal user base that expands over time. Longer term, we expect to continue to grow and diversify our transaction-based revenue through the growth of newly launched products, such as derivatives, and the diversification of assets on our platform to represent a wider variety of crypto-asset use cases with less cross-asset correlation in volatility. We also expect growth in non-transaction revenue to contribute to smaller market-based fluctuations in our results. Our total revenue is largely generated from transaction fees earned on volume-based trades across retail and institutional users. For the year ended December 31, 2024, transaction revenue represented 69.7% of total revenue, and our total revenue was $142.2 million, with net income (loss) of $(158.5) million and Adjusted EBITDA of $(13.2) million. For the six months ended June 30, 2025, transaction revenue represented 65.5% of total revenue, and our total revenue was $68.6 million, with net income (loss) of $(282.5) million and Adjusted EBITDA of $(113.5) million. Our principal executive offices are located in New York, New York.

About Piper Sandler Companies

Piper Sandler Companies operates as an investment bank and institutional securities firm that serves corporations, private equity groups, public entities, non-profit entities, and institutional investors in the United States and internationally. The company offers investment banking and institutional sales, trading, and research services for various equity and fixed income products. It provides advisory services, such as mergers and acquisitions, equity private placements, and debt and restructuring advisory; raises capital through equity and debt financings; underwrites municipal issuances; and offers municipal financial advisory and loan placement services, as well as various over-the-counter derivative products. The company also offers public finance investment banking services that focus on state and local governments, and cultural and social service non-profit entities, as well as the education, healthcare, hospitality, senior living, and transportation sectors. In addition, it provides equity and fixed income advisory and trade execution services for institutional investors, and government and non-profit entities. Further, the company is involved in the alternative asset management funds merchant banking and healthcare to invest firm capital and to manage capital from outside investors, as well as trading activities. The company was formerly known as Piper Jaffray Companies and changed its name to Piper Sandler Companies in January 2020. Piper Sandler Companies was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.