Core Scientific (CORZ) & Its Competitors Head to Head Contrast

Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) is one of 271 public companies in the “IT Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Core Scientific to similar businesses based on the strength of its risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Core Scientific and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Core Scientific	1	2	16	2	2.90
Core Scientific Competitors	1984	5630	9415	342	2.47

Core Scientific presently has a consensus price target of $31.28, suggesting a potential upside of 150.04%. As a group, “IT Services” companies have a potential upside of 24.12%. Given Core Scientific’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Core Scientific is more favorable than its peers.

Volatility and Risk

Core Scientific has a beta of 5.49, meaning that its stock price is 449% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Core Scientific’s peers have a beta of 2.15, meaning that their average stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

36.7% of shares of all “IT Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Core Scientific shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of shares of all “IT Services” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Core Scientific and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Core Scientific	-325.50%	N/A	-9.64%
Core Scientific Competitors	-191.25%	-32.07%	-8.67%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Core Scientific and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Core Scientific	$440.31 million	-$288.62 million	-2.83
Core Scientific Competitors	$3.34 billion	$227.67 million	-28.18

Core Scientific’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Core Scientific. Core Scientific is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Core Scientific beats its peers on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

About Core Scientific

Core Scientific, Inc. provides digital asset mining services in North America. It operates through two segments, Mining and Hosting. The company offers blockchain infrastructure, software solutions, and services; and operates data center mining facilities. It also mines digital assets for its own account; and provides hosting services for other large bitcoin miners, which include deployment, monitoring, trouble shooting, optimization, and maintenance of its customers' digital asset mining equipment. In addition, the company provides electrical power, repair, and other infrastructure services to operate, maintain, and earn digital assets; and sells mining equipment to customers. Core Scientific, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Dover, Delaware.