Esquire Financial (ESQ) Competitors

Esquire Financial (NASDAQ:ESQ) and Riot Platforms (NASDAQ:RIOT) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.

Do analysts rate ESQ or RIOT?

Esquire Financial presently has a consensus target price of $88.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.24%. Riot Platforms has a consensus target price of $17.18, suggesting a potential upside of 165.97%. Given Riot Platforms' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Riot Platforms is more favorable than Esquire Financial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Esquire Financial	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33
Riot Platforms	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	11 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.08

Is ESQ or RIOT more profitable?

Esquire Financial has a net margin of 31.58% compared to Riot Platforms' net margin of 16.67%. Esquire Financial's return on equity of 19.93% beat Riot Platforms' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Esquire Financial	31.58%	19.93%	2.54%
Riot Platforms	16.67%	2.15%	2.02%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ESQ or RIOT?

Riot Platforms received 333 more outperform votes than Esquire Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.61% of users gave Riot Platforms an outperform vote while only 57.48% of users gave Esquire Financial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Esquire Financial	Outperform Votes 196 57.48%	Underperform Votes 145 42.52%
Riot Platforms	Outperform Votes 529 68.61%	Underperform Votes 242 31.39%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of ESQ or RIOT?

54.7% of Esquire Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.3% of Riot Platforms shares are held by institutional investors. 18.9% of Esquire Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Riot Platforms shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, ESQ or RIOT?

Esquire Financial has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Riot Platforms has a beta of 4.6, meaning that its stock price is 360% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, ESQ or RIOT?

Esquire Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Riot Platforms. Esquire Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Riot Platforms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Esquire Financial	$124.82M	5.44	$43.66M	$5.16	15.61
Riot Platforms	$376.66M	6.01	-$49.47M	$0.39	16.56

Does the media prefer ESQ or RIOT?

In the previous week, Esquire Financial had 7 more articles in the media than Riot Platforms. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Esquire Financial and 2 mentions for Riot Platforms. Esquire Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Riot Platforms' score of 0.04 indicating that Esquire Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Esquire Financial	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Riot Platforms	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Esquire Financial beats Riot Platforms on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.