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GFAI vs. DLHC, MHH, BGSF, HGBL, TETE, NOTV, INUV, VERI, PHUN, and BTOC

Should you be buying Guardforce AI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guardforce AI include DLH (DLHC), Mastech Digital (MHH), BGSF (BGSF), Heritage Global (HGBL), Technology & Telecommunication Acquisition (TETE), Inotiv (NOTV), Inuvo (INUV), Veritone (VERI), Phunware (PHUN), and Armlogi (BTOC). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Guardforce AI vs. Its Competitors

Guardforce AI (NASDAQ:GFAI) and DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.

Guardforce AI has a beta of 2.51, suggesting that its share price is 151% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DLH has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Guardforce AI had 1 more articles in the media than DLH. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Guardforce AI and 2 mentions for DLH. DLH's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Guardforce AI's score of 0.63 indicating that DLH is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Guardforce AI
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
DLH
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Guardforce AI presently has a consensus target price of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 239.62%. Given Guardforce AI's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Guardforce AI is more favorable than DLH.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Guardforce AI
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.50
DLH
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

DLH has higher revenue and earnings than Guardforce AI.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Guardforce AI$36.35M0.65-$5.86MN/AN/A
DLH$395.94M0.21$7.40M$0.3815.30

DLH has a net margin of 1.44% compared to Guardforce AI's net margin of 0.00%. DLH's return on equity of 4.90% beat Guardforce AI's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Guardforce AIN/A N/A N/A
DLH 1.44%4.90%1.71%

2.0% of Guardforce AI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.3% of DLH shares are held by institutional investors. 76.7% of Guardforce AI shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.3% of DLH shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Guardforce AI beats DLH on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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GFAI vs. The Competition

MetricGuardforce AIPROTECTION IndustryIndustrials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$23.60M$2.03B$7.61B$9.37B
Dividend YieldN/A1.87%4.55%4.09%
P/E RatioN/A39.0925.2219.85
Price / Sales0.654.01104.31106.84
Price / Cash7.9561.7127.4657.53
Price / Book0.749.144.405.73
Net Income-$5.86M$110.42M$797.00M$257.62M
7 Day Performance11.34%1.16%0.19%0.73%
1 Month Performance19.36%3.78%5.81%10.90%
1 Year Performance-44.33%199.06%27.78%16.37%

Guardforce AI Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GFAI
Guardforce AI
3.4741 of 5 stars
$1.33
+8.6%
$4.50
+239.6%
-51.8%$23.60M$36.35M0.001,547News Coverage
DLHC
DLH
3.235 of 5 stars
$5.64
-4.2%
N/A-52.3%$84.74M$395.94M14.842,800
MHH
Mastech Digital
2.9175 of 5 stars
$6.69
-4.6%
N/A-6.2%$82.47M$200.44M23.071,160Gap Up
High Trading Volume
BGSF
BGSF
4.013 of 5 stars
$7.56
+3.0%
$9.00
+19.0%
-22.3%$81.54M$272.50M-24.39400High Trading Volume
HGBL
Heritage Global
2.7467 of 5 stars
$2.23
-1.3%
$4.00
+79.4%
-17.1%$80.12M$45.36M18.5860
TETE
Technology & Telecommunication Acquisition
N/A$12.41
+2.4%
N/A+3.2%$74.18MN/A0.002High Trading Volume
NOTV
Inotiv
2.9054 of 5 stars
$2.05
-1.9%
$5.00
+143.9%
-17.9%$71.80M$490.74M-0.642,100Negative News
Gap Down
INUV
Inuvo
2.2944 of 5 stars
$4.92
-0.6%
$15.00
+204.9%
+68.9%$70.97M$93.48M-82.0080
VERI
Veritone
3.87 of 5 stars
$1.52
+2.0%
$4.50
+196.1%
-40.5%$70.85M$92.64M-1.73550Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
PHUN
Phunware
1.8931 of 5 stars
$3.26
-5.2%
$6.67
+104.5%
-34.9%$69.39M$3.19M-4.02120
BTOC
Armlogi
0.9238 of 5 stars
$1.52
-1.3%
N/A-68.7%$64.85M$166.98M-6.61N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:GFAI) was last updated on 7/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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