Crescent Capital BDC (NASDAQ:CCAP – Get Free Report) and HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE – Get Free Report) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Crescent Capital BDC and HIVE Digital Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Crescent Capital BDC | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2.83 |
| HIVE Digital Technologies | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3.25 |
Crescent Capital BDC currently has a consensus price target of $19.17, indicating a potential downside of 0.64%. HIVE Digital Technologies has a consensus price target of $7.42, indicating a potential upside of 124.07%. Given HIVE Digital Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HIVE Digital Technologies is more favorable than Crescent Capital BDC.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Crescent Capital BDC | 47.06% | 12.20% | 5.57% |
| HIVE Digital Technologies | -12.04% | -10.78% | -8.97% |
Risk and Volatility
Crescent Capital BDC has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HIVE Digital Technologies has a beta of 3.39, suggesting that its stock price is 239% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
49.5% of Crescent Capital BDC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Crescent Capital BDC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies 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.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Crescent Capital BDC and HIVE Digital Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Crescent Capital BDC | $104.15 million | 6.86 | $83.84 million | $2.55 | 7.56 |
| HIVE Digital Technologies | $124.87 million | 3.69 | -$51.21 million | ($0.14) | -23.64 |
Crescent Capital BDC has higher earnings, but lower revenue than HIVE Digital Technologies. HIVE Digital Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crescent Capital BDC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Crescent Capital BDC beats HIVE Digital Technologies on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Crescent Capital BDC
Crescent Capital BDC, Inc. is as a business development company private equity / buyouts and loan fund. It specializes in directly investing. It specializes in middle market. The fund seeks to invest in United States.
About HIVE Digital Technologies
HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. operates as a cryptocurrency mining company in Canada, Sweden, and Iceland. The company engages in the mining and sale of digital currencies, including Ethereum Classic, Bitcoin, and other coins. It also operates data centers; and offers infrastructure solutions. The company was formerly known as HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd. and changed its name to HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. in July 2023. HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
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