CORZ vs. VEL, QD, CCAP, RWAY, WULF, HUT, LDI, MDBH, GHI, and LX
Should you be buying Core Scientific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Core Scientific include Velocity Financial (VEL), Qudian (QD), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), Runway Growth Finance (RWAY), TeraWulf (WULF), Hut 8 (HUT), loanDepot (LDI), MDB Capital (MDBH), Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI), and LexinFintech (LX). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Velocity Financial (NYSE:VEL) and Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
Velocity Financial currently has a consensus price target of $17.25, suggesting a potential downside of 3.52%. Core Scientific has a consensus price target of $6.75, suggesting a potential upside of 82.68%. Given Velocity Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Core Scientific is more favorable than Velocity Financial.
Velocity Financial has a net margin of 52.16% compared to Velocity Financial's net margin of 0.00%. Core Scientific's return on equity of 14.02% beat Velocity Financial's return on equity.
Velocity Financial received 82 more outperform votes than Core Scientific when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.09% of users gave Velocity Financial an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Core Scientific an outperform vote.
Velocity Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Core Scientific.
In the previous week, Core Scientific had 3 more articles in the media than Velocity Financial. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Core Scientific and 1 mentions for Velocity Financial. Velocity Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Core Scientific's score of 0.27 indicating that Core Scientific is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
97.5% of Velocity Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Velocity Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of Core Scientific shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Velocity Financial beats Core Scientific on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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