BFST vs. CLSK, BFH, ENVA, PRK, IBTX, PPBI, FBK, IREN, INTR, and LU
Should you be buying Business First Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Business First Bancshares include CleanSpark (CLSK), Bread Financial (BFH), Enova International (ENVA), Park National (PRK), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), FB Financial (FBK), Iris Energy (IREN), Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR), and Lufax (LU). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Business First Bancshares vs.
Business First Bancshares (NASDAQ:BFST) and CleanSpark (NASDAQ:CLSK) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Business First Bancshares presently has a consensus price target of $31.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.74%. CleanSpark has a consensus price target of $22.25, indicating a potential upside of 135.60%. Given CleanSpark's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CleanSpark is more favorable than Business First Bancshares.
CleanSpark has a net margin of 16.07% compared to Business First Bancshares' net margin of 14.19%. Business First Bancshares' return on equity of 11.88% beat CleanSpark's return on equity.
In the previous week, CleanSpark had 12 more articles in the media than Business First Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for CleanSpark and 2 mentions for Business First Bancshares. Business First Bancshares' average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat CleanSpark's score of 0.48 indicating that Business First Bancshares is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Business First Bancshares has higher revenue and earnings than CleanSpark. Business First Bancshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CleanSpark, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
47.4% of Business First Bancshares shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of CleanSpark shares are held by institutional investors. 6.5% of Business First Bancshares shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of CleanSpark 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.
CleanSpark received 10 more outperform votes than Business First Bancshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.68% of users gave CleanSpark an outperform vote while only 58.04% of users gave Business First Bancshares an outperform vote.
Business First Bancshares has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, CleanSpark has a beta of 4.24, suggesting that its stock price is 324% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CleanSpark beats Business First Bancshares on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BFST) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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