HIVE vs. LX, XYF, MFIN, SNFCA, CPSS, OPRT, GHI, MDBH, CNF, and BTM
Should you be buying HIVE Digital Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HIVE Digital Technologies include LexinFintech (LX), X Financial (XYF), Medallion Financial (MFIN), Security National Financial (SNFCA), Consumer Portfolio Services (CPSS), Oportun Financial (OPRT), Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI), MDB Capital (MDBH), CNFinance (CNF), and Bitcoin Depot (BTM). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
LexinFintech (NASDAQ:LX) and HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
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.
24.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.8% of LexinFintech shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are owned 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.
LexinFintech currently has a consensus target price of $2.66, indicating a potential upside of 37.47%. HIVE Digital Technologies has a consensus target price of $5.17, indicating a potential upside of 111.75%. Given LexinFintech's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HIVE Digital Technologies is more favorable than LexinFintech.
In the previous week, LexinFintech and LexinFintech both had 3 articles in the media. LexinFintech's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat HIVE Digital Technologies' score of 0.63 indicating that HIVE Digital Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HIVE Digital Technologies has a beta of 3.55, suggesting that its stock price is 255% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
LexinFintech beats HIVE Digital Technologies on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HIVE and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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