Life360 (LIF) Competitors

Life360 (NASDAQ:LIF) and GFL Environmental (NYSE:GFL) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.

Is LIF or GFL more profitable?

Life360 has a net margin of -4.72% compared to GFL Environmental's net margin of -7.54%. GFL Environmental's return on equity of 3.50% beat Life360's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Life360	-4.72%	-4.03%	-3.16%
GFL Environmental	-7.54%	3.50%	1.25%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in LIF or GFL?

20.0% of Life360 shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of Life360 shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of GFL Environmental shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts recommend LIF or GFL?

Life360 currently has a consensus target price of $51.00, indicating a potential downside of 18.74%. GFL Environmental has a consensus target price of $54.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.23%. Given GFL Environmental's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe GFL Environmental is more favorable than Life360.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Life360	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.13
GFL Environmental	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, LIF or GFL?

GFL Environmental has higher revenue and earnings than Life360. GFL Environmental is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Life360, 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
Life360	$396.88M	12.10	-$28.17M	$0.09	697.33
GFL Environmental	$7.99B	2.29	$33.63M	$4.88	10.22

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer LIF or GFL?

GFL Environmental received 106 more outperform votes than Life360 when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 86.36% of users gave Life360 an outperform vote while only 71.84% of users gave GFL Environmental an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Life360	Outperform Votes 19 86.36%	Underperform Votes 3 13.64%
GFL Environmental	Outperform Votes 125 71.84%	Underperform Votes 49 28.16%

Does the media prefer LIF or GFL?

In the previous week, Life360 had 10 more articles in the media than GFL Environmental. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Life360 and 6 mentions for GFL Environmental. Life360's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat GFL Environmental's score of 0.52 indicating that Life360 is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Life360	4 Very Positive mention(s)	4 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
GFL Environmental	1 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

GFL Environmental beats Life360 on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.