Samsara (NYSE:IOT) versus HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE) Head-To-Head Comparison

HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE) and Samsara (NYSE:IOT) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for HIVE Digital Technologies and Samsara, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HIVE Digital Technologies	1	1	6	0	2.62
Samsara	1	5	15	1	2.73

HIVE Digital Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $6.95, indicating a potential upside of 139.66%. Samsara has a consensus price target of $52.05, indicating a potential upside of 28.28%. Given HIVE Digital Technologies’ higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe HIVE Digital Technologies is more favorable than Samsara.

Profitability

This table compares HIVE Digital Technologies and Samsara’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HIVE Digital Technologies	-98.49%	-31.98%	-23.71%
Samsara	4.90%	4.13%	2.35%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

24.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Samsara shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 35.1% of Samsara shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares HIVE Digital Technologies and Samsara”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HIVE Digital Technologies	$297.79 million	2.67	-$148.45 million	($1.29)	-2.25
Samsara	$1.62 billion	14.61	-$9.12 million	$0.16	253.60

Samsara has higher revenue and earnings than HIVE Digital Technologies. HIVE Digital Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Samsara, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

HIVE Digital Technologies has a beta of 3.75, indicating that its share price is 275% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Samsara has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Samsara beats HIVE Digital Technologies on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Samsara

Samsara Inc. provides solutions that connects physical operations data to its connected operations cloud in the United States and internationally. The company's Connected Operations Cloud includes Data Platform, which ingests, aggregates, and enriches data from its IoT devices and has embedded capabilities for AI, workflows and analytics, alerts, API connections, and data security and privacy. Its applications include video-based safety that enables customers to build a safety program and protect their teams with AI-enabled video; vehicle telematics which provides visibility into real-time vehicle location and diagnostics with GPS tracking, routing and dispatch, fuel efficiency management, electric vehicle usage and charge planning, preventative maintenance, and insights to manage fuel and energy costs; and mobile apps and workflows that improves productivity for frontline workers and enables regulatory compliance for workers to see upcoming jobs, capture electronic documents, perform maintenance inspections, maintain compliance logs, and message with back-office administration. The company also provides equipment monitoring which offers visibility and management of unpowered and powered assets, ranging from generators and compressors to heavy construction equipment and trailers to improve operating efficiency, prevent unplanned downtime, and avoid critical safety and compliance issues; and site visibility that provides remote visibility into sites to improve onsite security, safety, and incident response times. It serves transportation, wholesale and retail trade, construction, field services, logistics, utilities and energy, healthcare and education, manufacturing, food and beverage, and other industries, as well as government. Samsara Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.