Reviewing Onespan (NASDAQ:OSPN) & Super League Enterprise (NASDAQ:SLE)

Super League Enterprise (NASDAQ:SLE) and Onespan (NASDAQ:OSPN) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Super League Enterprise and Onespan, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Super League Enterprise	0	0	2	0	3.00
Onespan	0	0	2	0	3.00

Super League Enterprise presently has a consensus target price of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2,073.91%. Onespan has a consensus target price of $19.50, suggesting a potential upside of 23.89%. Given Super League Enterprise’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Super League Enterprise is more favorable than Onespan.

Risk and Volatility

Super League Enterprise has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Onespan has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Super League Enterprise and Onespan”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Super League Enterprise	$16.18 million	0.21	-$16.64 million	($1.84)	-0.06
Onespan	$243.18 million	2.47	$57.08 million	$1.47	10.71

Onespan has higher revenue and earnings than Super League Enterprise. Super League Enterprise is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Onespan, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Super League Enterprise and Onespan’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Super League Enterprise	-105.13%	-1,169.11%	-124.84%
Onespan	24.05%	21.32%	13.95%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

2.1% of Super League Enterprise shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.5% of Onespan shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Super League Enterprise shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Onespan shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Onespan beats Super League Enterprise on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Super League Enterprise

Super League Enterprise, Inc. creates and publishes content and media solutions across immersive platforms in the United States and internationally. The company offers access to audiences who gather in immersive digital spaces to socialize, play, explore, collaborate, shop, learn, and create. It also provides a range of development, distribution, monetization, and optimization capabilities designed to engage users through dynamic and energized programs. Its proprietary cloud-based platform offers dynamic media technology; metaverse game experience and tournament technology; and fully remote production and livestream broadcast technology. In addition, the company operates Minecraft server world for more casual players on consoles and tablets. Further, it sells on-platform media and analytics products, and influencer marketing campaign sales to third-party brands and agencies; game development and custom game experiences within its owned and affiliate game worlds; and production, curation and distribution of entertainment content for its network of digital channels and media and entertainment partner channels. The company was formerly known as Super League Gaming, Inc. and changed its name to Super League Enterprise, Inc. in September 2023. Super League Enterprise, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

About Onespan

OneSpan Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, and markets digital solutions for identity, authentication, and secure digital agreements worldwide. The company offers OneSpan Sign, a range of e-signature requirements for occasional agreement to processing tens of thousands of transactions; OneSpan Cloud Authentication, a cloud-based multifactor authentication solution that supports a range of authentication options, including biometrics, push notification, and visual cryptograms for transaction data security, SMS, and hardware authenticators; and OneSpan Identity Verification, which enables banks and financial institutions identity verification services. It also provides Mobile Security Suite, a software development kit that protect mobile transactions; Digipass Authenticators, consisting of a wide variety of authentication devices; authentication servers that provides a range of strong authentication utilities and solutions designed to allow organizations to securely authenticate users and transactions; and Digipass FX1 BIO, a physical passkey with fingerprint scan built for the workforce authentication market. In addition, it offers Virtual Room, a purpose-built, high-assurance solution that blends the simplicity of a consumer video collaboration app with high-assurance identity and authentication security; OneSpan Notary, an online notary solution developed for organizations with in-house notaries; and OneSpan Trust Vault, a blockchain-based decentralized digital storage solution that helps organizations meet compliance, regulatory, and chain of custody requirements for critical documents. It sells its solutions through its direct sales force, as well as through distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and original equipment manufacturers. The company was formerly known as VASCO Data Security International, Inc. and changed its name to OneSpan Inc. in May 2018. OneSpan Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.