BKKT vs. PGY, HUT, HKD, WULF, BTDR, CCAP, VEL, LDI, GDOT, and CMPO
Should you be buying Bakkt stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bakkt include Pagaya Technologies (PGY), Hut 8 (HUT), AMTD Digital (HKD), TeraWulf (WULF), Bitdeer Technologies Group (BTDR), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), Velocity Financial (VEL), loanDepot (LDI), Green Dot (GDOT), and CompoSecure (CMPO). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Pagaya Technologies (NASDAQ:PGY) and Bakkt (NYSE:BKKT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Pagaya Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 132.85%. Bakkt has a consensus target price of $13.13, suggesting a potential downside of 25.43%. Given Bakkt's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Pagaya Technologies is more favorable than Bakkt.
Bakkt has a net margin of -4.26% compared to Bakkt's net margin of -10.53%. Bakkt's return on equity of -4.23% beat Pagaya Technologies' return on equity.
Bakkt has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pagaya Technologies. Pagaya Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bakkt, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Pagaya Technologies had 3 more articles in the media than Bakkt. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Pagaya Technologies and 2 mentions for Bakkt. Bakkt's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Pagaya Technologies' score of 0.64 indicating that Pagaya Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pagaya Technologies has a beta of 6.55, indicating that its share price is 555% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bakkt has a beta of 4.23, indicating that its share price is 323% more volatile than the S&P 500.
57.1% of Pagaya Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.1% of Bakkt shares are held by institutional investors. 19.7% of Pagaya Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Bakkt shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pagaya Technologies received 5 more outperform votes than Bakkt when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.09% of users gave Pagaya Technologies an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Bakkt an outperform vote.
Summary
Pagaya Technologies beats Bakkt on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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