LX vs. HIVE, GHI, XYF, CPSS, MFIN, SNFCA, MDBH, CNF, BTM, and BCG
Should you be buying LexinFintech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LexinFintech include HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI), X Financial (XYF), Consumer Portfolio Services (CPSS), Medallion Financial (MFIN), Security National Financial (SNFCA), MDB Capital (MDBH), CNFinance (CNF), Bitcoin Depot (BTM), and Binah Capital Group (BCG). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE) and LexinFintech (NASDAQ:LX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
In the previous week, HIVE Digital Technologies had 4 more articles in the media than LexinFintech. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for HIVE Digital Technologies and 0 mentions for LexinFintech. LexinFintech's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat HIVE Digital Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that HIVE Digital Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HIVE Digital Technologies has a beta of 3.55, meaning that its share price is 255% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LexinFintech has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
24.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 27.8% of LexinFintech shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
HIVE Digital Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $5.17, suggesting a potential upside of 127.61%. LexinFintech has a consensus price target of $2.66, suggesting a potential upside of 43.78%. Given LexinFintech's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe HIVE Digital Technologies is more favorable than LexinFintech.
LexinFintech has higher revenue and earnings than HIVE Digital Technologies. HIVE Digital Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LexinFintech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LexinFintech received 227 more outperform votes than HIVE Digital Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.70% of users gave LexinFintech an outperform vote while only 43.33% of users gave HIVE Digital Technologies an outperform vote.
LexinFintech has a net margin of 8.15% compared to LexinFintech's net margin of -57.15%. HIVE Digital Technologies' return on equity of 11.24% beat LexinFintech's return on equity.
Summary
LexinFintech beats HIVE Digital Technologies on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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