Financial Review: Green Street Capital (OTCMKTS:JAGR) & Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT)

Green Street Capital (OTCMKTS:JAGR) and Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, valuation and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Green Street Capital and Liquidity Services, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Green Street Capital	0	0	0	0	N/A
Liquidity Services	0	0	1	0	3.00

Liquidity Services has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 38.60%.

Volatility and Risk

Green Street Capital has a beta of -0.89, indicating that its stock price is 189% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liquidity Services has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Green Street Capital and Liquidity Services’ top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Green Street Capital	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Liquidity Services	$314.46 million	1.89	$20.98 million	$0.65	29.97

Liquidity Services has higher revenue and earnings than Green Street Capital.

Profitability

This table compares Green Street Capital and Liquidity Services’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Green Street Capital	N/A	N/A	N/A
Liquidity Services	6.30%	18.51%	10.37%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

71.2% of Liquidity Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 72.4% of Green Street Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.8% of Liquidity Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Liquidity Services beats Green Street Capital on 7 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Green Street Capital

Green Street Capital Corp. invests in environmental technology companies that require capital for expansion or are pursuing acquisition strategies. It also recycles grease trap waste for the production of biomass feedstock used in blending biofuels. Green Street Capital Corp. was formerly known as Jaguar Mining Enterprises Inc. and changed its name to Green Street Capital Corp. in July 2010. The company is based in Tampa, Florida.

About Liquidity Services

Liquidity Services, Inc. provides e-commerce marketplaces, self-directed auction listing tools, and value-added services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: GovDeals, Retail Supply Chain Group (RSCG), Capital Assets Group (CAG), and Machinio. Its marketplaces include liquidation.com that enable corporations to sell surplus and salvage consumer goods and retail capital assets; GovDeals marketplace, which provides self-directed service solutions in which sellers list their own assets that enables local and state government entities, and commercial businesses located in the United States and Canada to sell surplus and salvage assets; and AllSurplus, a centralized marketplace that connects global buyer base with assets from across the network of marketplaces in a single destination. The company also offers a suite of services, including surplus management, asset valuation, asset sales, marketing, returns management, asset recovery, and ecommerce services. In addition, it operates a global search engine platform for listing used equipment for sale in the construction, machine tool, transportation, printing, and agriculture sectors. The company offers products from industry verticals, such as consumer electronics, general merchandise, apparel, scientific equipment, aerospace parts and equipment, technology hardware, real estate, energy equipment, industrial capital assets, heavy equipment, fleet and transportation equipment, and specialty equipment. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.