CORZ vs. RWAY, QD, VEL, MDBH, CCAP, WULF, LDI, GHI, HUT, and LX
Should you be buying Core Scientific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Core Scientific include Runway Growth Finance (RWAY), Qudian (QD), Velocity Financial (VEL), MDB Capital (MDBH), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), TeraWulf (WULF), loanDepot (LDI), Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI), Hut 8 (HUT), and LexinFintech (LX). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) and Runway Growth Finance (NASDAQ:RWAY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Runway Growth Finance received 2 more outperform votes than Core Scientific when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.06% of users gave Runway Growth Finance an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Core Scientific an outperform vote.
Runway Growth Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Core Scientific.
64.6% of Runway Growth Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Runway Growth Finance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Core Scientific had 1 more articles in the media than Runway Growth Finance. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Core Scientific and 6 mentions for Runway Growth Finance. Runway Growth Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Core Scientific's score of 0.30 indicating that Runway Growth Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Runway Growth Finance has a net margin of 27.00% compared to Core Scientific's net margin of 0.00%. Runway Growth Finance's return on equity of 13.85% beat Core Scientific's return on equity.
Core Scientific currently has a consensus price target of $6.75, indicating a potential upside of 99.70%. Runway Growth Finance has a consensus price target of $13.25, indicating a potential upside of 0.00%. Given Core Scientific's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Core Scientific is more favorable than Runway Growth Finance.
Summary
Runway Growth Finance beats Core Scientific on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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