SII vs. HUT, BLX, BITF, HIVE, WED, VBNK, WFC, PTS, ML, and GRN
Should you be buying Sprott stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sprott include Hut 8 (HUT), Boralex (BLX), Bitfarms (BITF), HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), Westaim (WED), VersaBank (VBNK), Wall Financial (WFC), Points.com (PTS), Millennial Lithium (ML), and Greenlane Renewables Inc. (GRN.V) (GRN). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Sprott vs. Its Competitors
Sprott (TSE:SII) and Hut 8 (TSE:HUT) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Sprott has a beta of 1.056948, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hut 8 has a beta of 4.581835, suggesting that its stock price is 358% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sprott and Sprott both had 1 articles in the media. Sprott's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Hut 8's score of 0.67 indicating that Sprott is being referred to more favorably in the media.
21.7% of Sprott shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.4% of Hut 8 shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of Sprott shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 60.2% of Hut 8 shares are owned 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.
Sprott currently has a consensus target price of C$88.33, suggesting a potential downside of 8.53%. Given Sprott's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Sprott is more favorable than Hut 8.
Hut 8 has a net margin of 135.55% compared to Sprott's net margin of 28.20%. Hut 8's return on equity of 40.91% beat Sprott's return on equity.
Hut 8 has higher revenue and earnings than Sprott. 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.
Summary
Hut 8 beats Sprott on 9 of the 16 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 TSE 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 (TSE:SII) was last updated on 9/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
