CORZ vs. VEL, QD, CCAP, RWAY, WULF, HUT, LDI, MDBH, GHI, and LX
Should you be buying Core Scientific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Core Scientific include Velocity Financial (VEL), Qudian (QD), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), Runway Growth Finance (RWAY), TeraWulf (WULF), Hut 8 (HUT), loanDepot (LDI), MDB Capital (MDBH), Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI), and LexinFintech (LX). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) and Velocity Financial (NYSE:VEL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
In the previous week, Core Scientific had 6 more articles in the media than Velocity Financial. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Core Scientific and 2 mentions for Velocity Financial. Core Scientific's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Velocity Financial's score of 0.27 indicating that Core Scientific is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Velocity Financial has a net margin of 52.16% compared to Core Scientific's net margin of 0.00%. Velocity Financial's return on equity of 14.02% beat Core Scientific's return on equity.
Velocity Financial has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Core Scientific.
97.5% of Velocity Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Velocity Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Velocity Financial received 82 more outperform votes than Core Scientific when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.09% of users gave Velocity Financial an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Core Scientific an outperform vote.
Core Scientific currently has a consensus price target of $6.75, indicating a potential upside of 76.24%. Velocity Financial has a consensus price target of $17.25, indicating a potential downside of 2.93%. Given Core Scientific's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Core Scientific is more favorable than Velocity Financial.
Summary
Velocity Financial beats Core Scientific on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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