Contrasting Resonate Blends (OTCMKTS:KOAN) & Clear Secure (NYSE:YOU)

Resonate Blends (OTCMKTS:KOAN) and Clear Secure (NYSE:YOU) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

7.4% of Resonate Blends shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.8% of Clear Secure shares are held by institutional investors. 50.0% of Resonate Blends shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 37.9% of Clear Secure shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Resonate Blends and Clear Secure’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Resonate Blends	N/A	N/A	-80.02%
Clear Secure	10.93%	48.28%	12.96%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Resonate Blends and Clear Secure”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Resonate Blends	$20,000.00	13.28	-$1.42 million	($0.05)	-0.04
Clear Secure	$613.58 million	5.05	$28.11 million	$0.86	25.83

Clear Secure has higher revenue and earnings than Resonate Blends. Resonate Blends is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Clear Secure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Resonate Blends has a beta of 2.76, suggesting that its stock price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clear Secure has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Resonate Blends and Clear Secure, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Resonate Blends	0	0	0	0	0.00
Clear Secure	0	2	3	0	2.60

Clear Secure has a consensus price target of $35.20, indicating a potential upside of 58.47%. Given Clear Secure’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Clear Secure is more favorable than Resonate Blends.

Summary

Clear Secure beats Resonate Blends on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Resonate Blends

Resonate Blends, Inc., a cannabis holding company, provides cannabis wellness lifestyle products. The company offers Calm to quiet the mind and ease into a gentle sense of wellbeing; Wonder, a THC offering to bring back the youthful sense; Love to reduce barriers to intimacy, stimulate personal connections, and increase tactile sensation; Create to stimulate senses, spark imagination, and channel inner muse; Play to become fully immersed in the moment and the people around; Delight to open up senses; and Sleep for helping to fall asleep. The company was formerly known as Textmunication Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Resonate Blends, Inc. in December 2019. Resonate Blends, Inc. is based in Calabasas, California.

About Clear Secure

Clear Secure, Inc. operates a secure identity platform under the CLEAR brand name primarily in the United States. Its secure identity platform is a multi-layered infrastructure consisting of front-end, including enrollment, verification, and linking, as well as back-end. The company also offers CLEAR Plus, a consumer aviation subscription service, which enables access to predictable entry lanes in airport security checkpoints, as well as access to broader network; and CLEAR mobile app, which is used to enroll new members and improve the experience for existing members. In addition, it provides RESERVE powered by CLEAR, a virtual queuing technology that provides users with the ability to book a dedicated time slot to go through security at the airport; CLEAR Verified, a B2B offering that extends secure identity platform to partners to create friction-free experiences for their customers; TSA PreCheck Enrollment Provided by CLEAR, as well as online renewal services; Atlas Certified, an automated solution to verify professional licenses and certification data across industries; and Sora ID that enables adding know your customer services to platform offerings, as well as virtual queuing technology that enables customers to manage lines. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Clear Secure, Inc. is a subsidiary of Alclear Investments, Llc.