RIOT vs. BITF, CLSK, COIN, HIVE, HUT, MARA, BCH, CHYM, WF, and ALLY
Should you be buying Riot Platforms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Riot Platforms include Bitfarms (BITF), Cleanspark (CLSK), Coinbase Global (COIN), HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), Hut 8 (HUT), Marathon Digital (MARA), Banco De Chile (BCH), Chime Financial (CHYM), Woori Bank (WF), and Ally Financial (ALLY).
Riot Platforms vs. Its Competitors
Bitfarms (NASDAQ:BITF) and Riot Platforms (NASDAQ:RIOT) are both banking companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation and profitability.
Bitfarms presently has a consensus price target of $4.44, indicating a potential upside of 330.83%. Riot Platforms has a consensus price target of $17.35, indicating a potential upside of 41.75%. Given Bitfarms' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Bitfarms is more favorable than Riot Platforms.
In the previous week, Bitfarms had 12 more articles in the media than Riot Platforms. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Bitfarms and 9 mentions for Riot Platforms. Bitfarms' average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat Riot Platforms' score of -0.43 indicating that Bitfarms is being referred to more favorably in the media.
20.6% of Bitfarms shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.3% of Riot Platforms shares are held by institutional investors. 9.5% of Bitfarms shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Riot Platforms shares are held by company 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.
Bitfarms has a beta of 3.45, meaning that its stock price is 245% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Riot Platforms has a beta of 4.57, meaning that its stock price is 357% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Riot Platforms has higher revenue and earnings than Bitfarms. Riot Platforms is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bitfarms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bitfarms has a net margin of -40.09% compared to Riot Platforms' net margin of -86.93%. Bitfarms' return on equity of -12.70% beat Riot Platforms' return on equity.
Summary
Bitfarms beats Riot Platforms on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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.
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This page (NASDAQ:RIOT) was last updated on 7/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
