Sphere 3D (ANY) Competitors

Sphere 3D (NASDAQ:ANY) and IF Bancorp (NASDAQ:IROQ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor ANY or IROQ?

Sphere 3D received 249 more outperform votes than IF Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.50% of users gave Sphere 3D an outperform vote while only 65.03% of users gave IF Bancorp an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Sphere 3D	Outperform Votes 355 73.50%	Underperform Votes 128 26.50%
IF Bancorp	Outperform Votes 106 65.03%	Underperform Votes 57 34.97%

Do analysts recommend ANY or IROQ?

Sphere 3D presently has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 315.00%. Given Sphere 3D's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sphere 3D is more favorable than IF Bancorp.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sphere 3D	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
IF Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has more risk & volatility, ANY or IROQ?

Sphere 3D has a beta of 3.34, indicating that its share price is 234% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IF Bancorp has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of ANY or IROQ?

17.3% of Sphere 3D shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of IF Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Sphere 3D shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of IF Bancorp shares are held 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.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, ANY or IROQ?

IF Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Sphere 3D. Sphere 3D is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IF Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sphere 3D	$12.48M	1.53	-$23.41M	-$0.57	-1.27
IF Bancorp	$24.61M	3.28	$1.79M	$1.02	23.60

Is ANY or IROQ more profitable?

IF Bancorp has a net margin of 6.18% compared to Sphere 3D's net margin of -50.87%. IF Bancorp's return on equity of 3.97% beat Sphere 3D's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sphere 3D	-50.87%	-49.54%	-34.72%
IF Bancorp	6.18%	3.97%	0.34%

Does the media refer more to ANY or IROQ?

In the previous week, Sphere 3D and Sphere 3D both had 1 articles in the media. IF Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Sphere 3D's score of 1.87 indicating that IF Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Sphere 3D	Very Positive
IF Bancorp	Very Positive

Summary

IF Bancorp beats Sphere 3D on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.