VBNK vs. HUT, SII, BITF, PTS, WED, ML, GRN, WFC, CARE, and CFW
Should you be buying VersaBank stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VersaBank include Hut 8 (HUT), Sprott (SII), Bitfarms (BITF), Points.com (PTS), Westaim (WED), Millennial Lithium (ML), Greenlane Renewables Inc. (GRN.V) (GRN), Wall Financial (WFC), Dialogue Health Technologies (CARE), and Calfrac Well Services (CFW). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
VersaBank vs.
Hut 8 (TSE:HUT) and VersaBank (TSE:VBNK) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
57.2% of Hut 8 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.6% of VersaBank shares are held by institutional investors. 60.2% of Hut 8 shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 38.8% of VersaBank shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hut 8 has a net margin of 135.55% compared to VersaBank's net margin of 19.94%. Hut 8's return on equity of 40.91% beat VersaBank's return on equity.
Hut 8 received 11 more outperform votes than VersaBank when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave VersaBank an outperform vote while only 73.68% of users gave Hut 8 an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Hut 8's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat VersaBank's score of 0.00 indicating that Hut 8 is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hut 8 has higher earnings, but lower revenue than VersaBank. Hut 8 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VersaBank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
VersaBank has a consensus target price of C$17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.76%. Given VersaBank's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe VersaBank is more favorable than Hut 8.
Hut 8 has a beta of 3.45, meaning that its stock price is 245% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VersaBank has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hut 8 beats VersaBank on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (TSE:VBNK) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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