SII vs. HUT, WULF, LDI, PWP, CCAP, CORZ, QD, VEL, RWAY, and MDBH
Should you be buying Sprott stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sprott include Hut 8 (HUT), TeraWulf (WULF), loanDepot (LDI), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), Core Scientific (CORZ), Qudian (QD), Velocity Financial (VEL), Runway Growth Finance (RWAY), and MDB Capital (MDBH). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Hut 8 (NASDAQ:HUT) and Sprott (NYSE:SII) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Sprott has higher revenue and earnings than Hut 8. Hut 8 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sprott, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hut 8 received 9 more outperform votes than Sprott when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.94% of users gave Hut 8 an outperform vote while only 34.62% of users gave Sprott an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Hut 8 had 14 more articles in the media than Sprott. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Hut 8 and 1 mentions for Sprott. Sprott's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Hut 8's score of -1.00 indicating that Hut 8 is being referred to more favorably in the media.
31.8% of Hut 8 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.3% of Sprott shares are held by institutional investors. 18.3% of Sprott shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sprott has a net margin of 27.34% compared to Sprott's net margin of -184.31%. Hut 8's return on equity of 14.19% beat Sprott's return on equity.
Hut 8 presently has a consensus price target of $12.33, suggesting a potential upside of 39.99%. Given Sprott's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Hut 8 is more favorable than Sprott.
Hut 8 has a beta of 3.91, meaning that its share price is 291% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sprott has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hut 8 beats Sprott on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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