BTCS (NASDAQ:BTCS – Get Free Report) and BitFuFu (NASDAQ:FUFU – Get Free Report) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for BTCS and BitFuFu, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BTCS | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
| BitFuFu | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
BTCS presently has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 242.47%. BitFuFu has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 66.27%. Given BTCS’s higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe BTCS is more favorable than BitFuFu.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BTCS | 366.80% | -15.42% | -13.77% |
| BitFuFu | 8.17% | 40.15% | 13.55% |
Risk & Volatility
BTCS has a beta of 2.9, meaning that its stock price is 190% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BitFuFu has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
3.5% of BTCS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.3% of BitFuFu shares are held by institutional investors. 44.3% of BTCS shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 35.0% of BitFuFu shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares BTCS and BitFuFu”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BTCS | $4.07 million | 5.74 | $7.82 million | ($0.22) | -6.64 |
| BitFuFu | $463.33 million | 1.48 | $10.49 million | $0.35 | 12.03 |
BitFuFu has higher revenue and earnings than BTCS. BTCS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BitFuFu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BitFuFu beats BTCS on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About BTCS
BTCS Inc. operates in blockchain technology sector the United States. Its blockchain-infrastructure secures and operates validator nodes on disruptive blockchain networks, as well as validates transactions for crypto holding delegations on dPoS blockchains. The company offers StakeSeeker, a cryptocurrency dashboard and staking-as-a-service platform that allows crypto asset holders to earn rewards by participating in network consensus mechanisms; and Builder+, a Ethereum block builder offered to maximize validator earnings by utilizing algorithms to construct optimized blocks for on-chain validation. In addition, it is involved in the development of ChainQ, an AI-powered blockchain data and analytics platform, which allows users to query real-time and historical on-chain blockchain data. The company was formerly known as Bitcoin Shop, Inc. and changed its name to BTCS Inc. in July 2015. BTCS Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Silver Spring, Maryland.
About BitFuFu
BitFuFu Inc. provides digital asset mining and cloud-mining services in Singapore. It also offers miner rental, and miner hosting and sales services to institutional customers and individual digital asset enthusiasts. The company is based in Singapore, Singapore.
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