BITF vs. PRK, LU, IREN, FBK, PPBI, INTR, FINV, CIFR, PWP, and MBIN
Should you be buying Bitfarms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bitfarms include Park National (PRK), Lufax (LU), Iris Energy (IREN), FB Financial (FBK), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR), FinVolution Group (FINV), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), and Merchants Bancorp (MBIN). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Bitfarms vs.
Park National (NYSE:PRK) and Bitfarms (NASDAQ:BITF) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
62.7% of Park National shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.6% of Bitfarms shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Park National shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Bitfarms shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Park National has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bitfarms has a beta of 3.64, meaning that its stock price is 264% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Park National had 23 more articles in the media than Bitfarms. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Park National and 5 mentions for Bitfarms. Bitfarms' average media sentiment score of 0.02 beat Park National's score of -0.25 indicating that Bitfarms is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Park National currently has a consensus target price of $181.75, indicating a potential upside of 11.34%. Bitfarms has a consensus target price of $4.05, indicating a potential upside of 206.82%. Given Bitfarms' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bitfarms is more favorable than Park National.
Park National has higher revenue and earnings than Bitfarms. Bitfarms is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park National, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Park National has a net margin of 23.46% compared to Bitfarms' net margin of -69.08%. Park National's return on equity of 12.31% beat Bitfarms' return on equity.
Bitfarms received 38 more outperform votes than Park National when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.17% of users gave Bitfarms an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Park National an outperform vote.
Summary
Park National and Bitfarms tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BITF) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
