BCAL vs. WULF, BTDR, HUT, MBIN, CASH, NIC, CUBI, NTB, TFIN, and CLBK
Should you be buying Southern California Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Southern California Bancorp include TeraWulf (WULF), Bitdeer Technologies Group (BTDR), Hut 8 (HUT), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Pathward Financial (CASH), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Triumph Financial (TFIN), and Columbia Financial (CLBK). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Southern California Bancorp vs.
Southern California Bancorp (NASDAQ:BCAL) and TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Southern California Bancorp has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TeraWulf has a beta of 2.59, indicating that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TeraWulf had 6 more articles in the media than Southern California Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for TeraWulf and 0 mentions for Southern California Bancorp. TeraWulf's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Southern California Bancorp's score of 0.00 indicating that TeraWulf is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
55.4% of Southern California Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of TeraWulf shares are held by institutional investors. 19.6% of Southern California Bancorp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.9% of TeraWulf shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Southern California Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $19.50, indicating a potential upside of 23.11%. TeraWulf has a consensus target price of $8.64, indicating a potential upside of 111.83%. Given TeraWulf's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TeraWulf is more favorable than Southern California Bancorp.
TeraWulf received 39 more outperform votes than Southern California Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.77% of users gave TeraWulf an outperform vote while only 75.00% of users gave Southern California Bancorp an outperform vote.
Southern California Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than TeraWulf.
Southern California Bancorp has a net margin of 2.94% compared to TeraWulf's net margin of -41.88%. Southern California Bancorp's return on equity of 8.97% beat TeraWulf's return on equity.
Summary
TeraWulf beats Southern California Bancorp on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BCAL) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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