HIVE vs. XYF, LX, MFIN, CPSS, SNFCA, OPRT, GHI, CNF, MDBH, and BTM
Should you be buying HIVE Digital Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HIVE Digital Technologies include X Financial (XYF), LexinFintech (LX), Medallion Financial (MFIN), Consumer Portfolio Services (CPSS), Security National Financial (SNFCA), Oportun Financial (OPRT), Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI), CNFinance (CNF), MDB Capital (MDBH), and Bitcoin Depot (BTM). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE) and X Financial (NYSE:XYF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
24.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.1% of X Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 31.6% of X Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HIVE Digital Technologies has a beta of 3.55, meaning that its stock price is 255% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, X Financial has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, HIVE Digital Technologies had 3 more articles in the media than X Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for HIVE Digital Technologies and 2 mentions for X Financial. HIVE Digital Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat X Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that HIVE Digital Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
X Financial received 116 more outperform votes than HIVE Digital Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.11% of users gave X Financial an outperform vote while only 43.33% of users gave HIVE Digital Technologies an outperform vote.
X Financial has higher revenue and earnings than HIVE Digital Technologies. HIVE Digital Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than X Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
X Financial has a net margin of 24.64% compared to HIVE Digital Technologies' net margin of -57.15%. X Financial's return on equity of 22.42% beat HIVE Digital Technologies' return on equity.
HIVE Digital Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $5.17, indicating a potential upside of 118.93%. Given HIVE Digital Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HIVE Digital Technologies is more favorable than X Financial.
Summary
X Financial beats HIVE Digital Technologies on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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