Financial Comparison: GDS (NASDAQ:GDS) and Future Farm Technologies (OTCMKTS:FFRMF)

Future Farm Technologies (OTCMKTS:FFRMF) and GDS (NASDAQ:GDS) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares Future Farm Technologies and GDS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Future Farm Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
GDS	30.70%	17.94%	6.11%

Volatility and Risk

Future Farm Technologies has a beta of 0.13, indicating that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GDS has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Future Farm Technologies and GDS, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Future Farm Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
GDS	0	2	3	1	2.83

GDS has a consensus price target of $47.54, indicating a potential upside of 42.29%. Given GDS’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe GDS is more favorable than Future Farm Technologies.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Future Farm Technologies and GDS”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Future Farm Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
GDS	$12.26 billion	0.55	$132.10 million	$2.15	15.54

GDS has higher revenue and earnings than Future Farm Technologies.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

33.7% of GDS shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of GDS shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

GDS beats Future Farm Technologies on 11 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Future Farm Technologies

Future Farm Technologies Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in indoor plant growth technology; and production of wholesale and retail cannabis products in North America. The company manufactures and distributes LED lighting bulbs, fixtures, lamps, retrofits, and other products for the commercial and residential applications through its Website, LEDCanada.com; and packaging for LED light engine through COBGrowlights.com. It also offers vertical farming solutions. In addition, the company sells cannabis biomass, seeds, and oil from hemp; and operates ornamental plant greenhouse. The company was formerly known as Arcturus Growthstar Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Future Farm Technologies Inc. in February 2017. Future Farm Technologies Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

About GDS

GDS Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, develops and operates data centers in the People's Republic of China. The company provides colocation services comprising critical facilities space, customer-available power, racks, and cooling; managed hosting services, including business continuity and disaster recovery, network management, data storage, system security, operating system, database, and server middleware services; managed cloud services; and consulting services. It serves cloud service providers, large Internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications and IT service providers, and large domestic private sector and multinational corporations. GDS Holdings Limited was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.