HUT vs. CCAP, WULF, VEL, LDI, RWAY, MDBH, GHI, HIVE, LX, and SII
Should you be buying Hut 8 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hut 8 include Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), TeraWulf (WULF), Velocity Financial (VEL), loanDepot (LDI), Runway Growth Finance (RWAY), MDB Capital (MDBH), Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI), HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), LexinFintech (LX), and Sprott (SII). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Crescent Capital BDC (NASDAQ:CCAP) and Hut 8 (NASDAQ:HUT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
In the previous week, Hut 8 had 13 more articles in the media than Crescent Capital BDC. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Hut 8 and 3 mentions for Crescent Capital BDC. Crescent Capital BDC's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Hut 8's score of 0.56 indicating that Hut 8 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Crescent Capital BDC received 10 more outperform votes than Hut 8 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.90% of users gave Crescent Capital BDC an outperform vote while only 52.94% of users gave Hut 8 an outperform vote.
Crescent Capital BDC has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hut 8 has a beta of 3.91, suggesting that its stock price is 291% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Crescent Capital BDC has higher revenue and earnings than Hut 8. Hut 8 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crescent Capital BDC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crescent Capital BDC currently has a consensus target price of $17.75, indicating a potential upside of 2.96%. Hut 8 has a consensus target price of $12.33, indicating a potential upside of 39.20%. Given Crescent Capital BDC's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hut 8 is more favorable than Crescent Capital BDC.
Crescent Capital BDC has a net margin of 45.54% compared to Crescent Capital BDC's net margin of -184.31%. Hut 8's return on equity of 11.32% beat Crescent Capital BDC's return on equity.
49.5% of Crescent Capital BDC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Hut 8 shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Crescent Capital BDC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Crescent Capital BDC beats Hut 8 on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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