Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR – Get Free Report) and HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE – Get Free Report) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and valuation.
Volatility & Risk
Radware has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HIVE Digital Technologies has a beta of 3.76, indicating that its stock price is 276% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
73.1% of Radware shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of Radware shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Radware | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| HIVE Digital Technologies | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2.62 |
Radware currently has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential downside of 14.94%. HIVE Digital Technologies has a consensus price target of $6.95, indicating a potential upside of 171.48%. Given HIVE Digital Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HIVE Digital Technologies is more favorable than Radware.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Radware 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 | |
| Radware | $317.81 million | 3.89 | $20.26 million | $0.38 | 77.34 |
| HIVE Digital Technologies | $297.79 million | 2.36 | -$148.45 million | ($1.29) | -1.98 |
Radware has higher revenue and earnings than HIVE Digital Technologies. HIVE Digital Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Radware, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Radware and HIVE Digital Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Radware | 5.34% | 7.47% | 4.26% |
| HIVE Digital Technologies | -98.49% | -31.98% | -23.71% |
Summary
Radware beats HIVE Digital Technologies on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Radware
Radware Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets cyber security and application delivery solutions for cloud, on-premises, and software defined data centers worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Radware’s Core Business and The Hawks’ Business. It offers DefensePro provides automated DDoS protection; Radware Kubernetes, a web application firewall solution; and Cyber Controller, a unified solution for management, configuration, and attack lifecycle. The company also provides Alteon, an application delivery and security solution that manages application traffic across cloud and data center locations for optimizing availability and performance; and LinkProof NG, a multi-homing and enterprise gateway solution. In addition, it offers ERT Security Updates Subscription that provides protection from network elements, hosts, and applications; ERT Active Attackers Feed, a threat intelligence feed to protect against DDoS threats; ERT Protection Packages; Alteon Global Elastic License, a purchasing and deployment subscription; MSSP Portal, a DDoS detection and mitigation service portal; Location-based Mitigation that enables network traffic based on the geolocation mapping of IP subnets; and Cloud DDoS Protection Service, which offers a range of enterprise-grade DDoS protection services in the cloud. Further, the company provides Cloud Web DDoS Protection, Cloud WAF Service, Bot Manager, Cloud-Native Protector, and Cloud Application Protection Services, as well as technical support, professional, managed, and training and certification services. It sells its products primarily to independent distributors, including value added resellers, original equipment manufacturers, and system integrators. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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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