Bitfarms (NASDAQ:BITF) and Helport AI (NASDAQ:HPAI) Critical Analysis

Helport AI (NASDAQ:HPAI) and Bitfarms (NASDAQ:BITF) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Volatility & Risk

Helport AI has a beta of -0.21, indicating that its share price is 121% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bitfarms has a beta of 3.73, indicating that its share price is 273% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Helport AI and Bitfarms”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Helport AI	$29.58 million	3.46	$7.37 million	N/A	N/A
Bitfarms	$192.88 million	11.59	-$95.71 million	($0.17)	-23.35

Helport AI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bitfarms.

Profitability

This table compares Helport AI and Bitfarms’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Helport AI	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bitfarms	-35.09%	-9.86%	-8.44%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

62.4% of Helport AI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.6% of Bitfarms shares are held by institutional investors. 13.3% of Helport AI shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Bitfarms shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Helport AI and Bitfarms, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Helport AI	1	0	0	0	1.00
Bitfarms	1	0	7	0	2.75

Bitfarms has a consensus price target of $4.75, indicating a potential upside of 19.65%. Given Bitfarms’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bitfarms is more favorable than Helport AI.

About Helport AI

Helport AI Ltd. engages in the development of intelligent products, solutions, and a digital platform for customer contact centers. The firm offers AI Assist, a software that provides tailored AI-powered guidance and oversight for contact center interactions and customer experience, with functions including agent assistant, quality assurance (QA) assistant, supervisor assistant, and knowledge base assistant. It also operates Helphub Crowdsourcing Platform, an AI integrated contact center business process outsourcing (BPO) platform that serves both companies providing and seeking BPO services. The company was founded in September 2020 and is headquartered in Singapore.

About Bitfarms

Bitfarms Ltd. engages in the mining of cryptocurrency coins and tokens in Canada, the United States, Paraguay, and Argentina. It owns and operates server farms that primarily validates transactions on the Bitcoin Blockchain and earning cryptocurrency from block rewards and transaction fees. The company also provides electrician services to commercial and residential customers in Quebec, Canada. It also undertakes hosting of third-party mining hardware. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Canada.