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 better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking and dividends.
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.
64.6% of Runway Growth Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Runway Growth Finance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Runway Growth Finance received 2 more outperform votes than Core Scientific when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 44.44% of users gave Runway Growth Finance an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Core Scientific an outperform vote.
Core Scientific currently has a consensus target price of $6.75, suggesting a potential upside of 93.97%. Runway Growth Finance has a consensus target price of $12.85, suggesting a potential upside of 4.30%. Given Core Scientific's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Core Scientific is more favorable than Runway Growth Finance.
Runway Growth Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Core Scientific.
In the previous week, Runway Growth Finance had 7 more articles in the media than Core Scientific. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Runway Growth Finance and 8 mentions for Core Scientific. Runway Growth Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Core Scientific's score of 0.13 indicating that Runway Growth Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Runway Growth Finance beats Core Scientific on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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