Lazard (NYSE:LAZ – Get Free Report) and TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF – Get Free Report) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Volatility and Risk
Lazard has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TeraWulf has a beta of 3.84, indicating that its stock price is 284% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Lazard and TeraWulf, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Lazard | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2.08 |
| TeraWulf | 1 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2.80 |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
54.8% of Lazard shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of TeraWulf shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Lazard shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of TeraWulf shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Lazard and TeraWulf”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Lazard | $3.10 billion | 1.75 | $236.83 million | $2.53 | 19.17 |
| TeraWulf | $168.46 million | 75.47 | -$661.42 million | ($2.48) | -10.35 |
Lazard has higher revenue and earnings than TeraWulf. TeraWulf is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lazard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Lazard and TeraWulf’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Lazard | 8.47% | 29.30% | 5.52% |
| TeraWulf | -611.46% | -305.07% | -8.42% |
About Lazard
Lazard, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a financial advisory and asset management firm in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. It operates in two segments, Financial Advisory and Asset Management. The Financial Advisory segment offers financial advisory services, such as mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, shareholder, sovereign, geopolitical advisory, and other strategic advisory services, as well as restructuring and liability management, and capital raising and placement services. This segment offers its services to corporate, partnership, institutional, government, sovereign, and individual clients to various industry areas, including consumers, financial institutions, healthcare and life sciences, industrials, power and energy/infrastructure, real estate, technology, telecommunication, and media and entertainment. The Asset Management segment offers a range of investment solutions; investment and wealth management services in equity and fixed income strategies; asset allocation strategies; and alternative investments and private equity funds to corporations, public funds, sovereign entities, endowments and foundations, labor funds, financial intermediaries, and private clients. Lazard, Inc. was incorporated in 1848 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
About TeraWulf
TeraWulf Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital asset technology company in the United States. The company develops, owns, and operates bitcoin mining facilities in New York and Pennsylvania. It is also involved in the provision of miner hosting services to third-party entities. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Easton, Maryland.
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