Hut 8 (NASDAQ:HUT – Get Free Report) and Braze (NASDAQ:BRZE – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and risk.
Risk & Volatility
Hut 8 has a beta of 4.62, meaning that its share price is 362% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Braze has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
31.8% of Hut 8 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Braze shares are held by institutional investors. 10.4% of Hut 8 shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Braze shares are held 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.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Hut 8 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 3.00 |
| Braze | 1 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 2.86 |
Hut 8 presently has a consensus price target of $143.95, indicating a potential upside of 66.69%. Braze has a consensus price target of $38.21, indicating a potential upside of 48.97%. Given Hut 8’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Hut 8 is more favorable than Braze.
Profitability
This table compares Hut 8 and Braze’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Hut 8 | -188.59% | -0.97% | -0.36% |
| Braze | -13.55% | -16.11% | -8.86% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Hut 8 and Braze”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Hut 8 | $235.12 million | 45.27 | -$226.15 million | ($5.45) | -15.85 |
| Braze | $738.18 million | 3.95 | -$131.29 million | ($1.03) | -24.90 |
Braze has higher revenue and earnings than Hut 8. Braze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hut 8, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hut 8 beats Braze on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Hut 8
Hut 8 Corp., together with its subsidiaries, acquires, builds, manages, and operates data centers for digital assets mining, computing, and artificial intelligence in the United States. It operates in four segments: Digital Assets Mining, Managed Services, High Performance Computing Colocation and Cloud, and Other. The company mines Bitcoin. It also offers managed services for energy infrastructure development, such as site design, procurement, and construction management; software automation, process design, personnel hiring, and team training; utilities contracts, hosting operations, and customer management; energy portfolio optimization and strategic initiatives; and finance, accounting, and safety services for digital asset mining site owners, governments, and data center developers. In addition, the company provides colocation, cloud, and connectivity services; hosting services, which include the provision of mining equipment and space, as well as monitors, troubleshoots, repairs, and maintains customer mining equipment; and equipment sales and repair services. Hut 8 Corp. was founded in 2017 and is based in Miami, Florida.
About Braze
Braze, Inc. operates a customer engagement platform that provides interactions between consumers and brands worldwide. The company offers Braze software development kits that automatically manage data ingestion and deliver mobile and web notifications, in-application/in-browser interstitial messages, and content cards; REST API that can be used to import or export data or to trigger workflows between Braze and brands' existing technology stacks; Partner Data Integrations, which allow brands to sync user cohorts from partners; Data Transformation, in which brands can programmatically sync and transform user data; and Braze Cloud Data Ingestion that enables brands to harness their customer data. It also offers classification products, including segmentation that can define reusable segments of consumers based upon attributes, events, or predictive propensity scores; segment insights, which allows customers to analyze how segments are performing relative to each other across a set of pre-selected key performance indicators; and predictive suite that allows customers to identify groups of consumers that are of critical business value. In addition, the company provides Canvas, an orchestration tool that allows customers to create journeys, mapping out multi-steps, and cross-channel messaging experiences; campaigns, which allows customers to send one set of single-channel or multi-channel messages to be delivered to customers in a particular user segment; event and API triggering; marketing pressure management; and reporting and analytics. Further, it offers personalization products, such as liquid templating platform, connected content platform, content blocks, intelligent timing and channel, personalized variant, and AI item recommendations, and catalogs; and action products. The company was formerly known as Appboy, Inc. and changed its name to Braze, Inc. in November 2017. Braze, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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