Bitfarms (NASDAQ:BITF – Get Free Report) and LexinFintech (NASDAQ:LX – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Profitability
This table compares Bitfarms and LexinFintech’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Bitfarms | -69.08% | -22.17% | -18.93% |
| LexinFintech | 5.34% | 7.47% | 3.26% |
Risk and Volatility
Bitfarms has a beta of 3.68, meaning that its stock price is 268% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LexinFintech has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Bitfarms | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2.86 |
| LexinFintech | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
Bitfarms currently has a consensus price target of $4.05, indicating a potential upside of 275.00%. Given Bitfarms’ higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Bitfarms is more favorable than LexinFintech.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
20.6% of Bitfarms shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.5% of Bitfarms shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.8% of LexinFintech shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Bitfarms and LexinFintech”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Bitfarms | $182.96 million | 2.83 | -$104.04 million | ($0.36) | -3.00 |
| LexinFintech | $14.05 billion | 0.13 | $150.14 million | $0.63 | 17.10 |
LexinFintech has higher revenue and earnings than Bitfarms. Bitfarms is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LexinFintech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
LexinFintech beats Bitfarms on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Bitfarms
Bitfarms Ltd. engages in the mining of cryptocurrency coins and tokens in Canada, the United States, Paraguay, and Argentina. It owns and operates server farms that primarily validates transactions on the Bitcoin Blockchain and earning cryptocurrency from block rewards and transaction fees. The company also provides electrician services to commercial and residential customers in Quebec, Canada. It also undertakes hosting of third-party mining hardware. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
About LexinFintech
LexinFintech Holdings Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides online consumer finance services in the People's Republic of China. The company operates Fenqile.com, an online consumption and consumer finance platform that offers installment purchase and personal installment loans, as well as online direct sales with installment payment terms; and Le Hua Card, a scenario-based lending. It also provides technology-driven platform services for financial institution customers and partners to increase revenues, manage financial risks, enhance operating efficiency and service quality, enhance collections, and reduce overall costs; Maiya application, a location-based services shopping experience with buy-now and pay-later options; and Juzi Licai, an online investment platform. In addition, the company offers technical support and consulting, software development, financing guarantee, and financial technology services. The company was formerly known as Staging Finance Holding Ltd. and changed its name to LexinFintech Holdings Ltd. in March 2017. LexinFintech Holdings Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.
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