CIFR vs. BBDC, FSCO, OXLC, RONI, IRON, AACT, AMAL, PUYI, QD, and BFST
Should you be buying Cipher Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cipher Mining include Barings BDC (BBDC), FS Credit Opportunities (FSCO), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Rice Acquisition Corp. II (RONI), Disc Medicine (IRON), Ares Acquisition Co. II (AACT), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), Highest Performances (PUYI), Qudian (QD), and Business First Bancshares (BFST).
Barings BDC (NYSE:BBDC) and Cipher Mining (NASDAQ:CIFR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Barings BDC received 71 more outperform votes than Cipher Mining when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 91.43% of users gave Cipher Mining an outperform vote while only 58.52% of users gave Barings BDC an outperform vote.
Barings BDC has a net margin of 44.26% compared to Barings BDC's net margin of -20.32%. Cipher Mining's return on equity of 10.63% beat Barings BDC's return on equity.
Barings BDC has higher revenue and earnings than Cipher Mining. Cipher Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barings BDC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Barings BDC has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cipher Mining has a beta of 2.21, meaning that its share price is 121% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Barings BDC presently has a consensus price target of $9.13, suggesting a potential downside of 1.24%. Cipher Mining has a consensus price target of $5.25, suggesting a potential upside of 9.15%. Given Barings BDC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cipher Mining is more favorable than Barings BDC.
In the previous week, Cipher Mining had 17 more articles in the media than Barings BDC. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Cipher Mining and 2 mentions for Barings BDC. Barings BDC's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Cipher Mining's score of 0.26 indicating that Cipher Mining is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
44.1% of Barings BDC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.3% of Cipher Mining shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Barings BDC shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Cipher Mining shares are held 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
Barings BDC and Cipher Mining tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Cipher Mining News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for CIFR and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CIFR and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
Cipher Mining Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
