Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE:BAM) & BTCS (NASDAQ:BTCS) Financial Contrast

Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE:BAM) and BTCS (NASDAQ:BTCS) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability and risk.

Risk & Volatility

Brookfield Asset Management has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BTCS has a beta of 1.55, suggesting that its stock price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Brookfield Asset Management and BTCS, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Brookfield Asset Management	2	8	7	2	2.47
BTCS	0	2	1	0	2.33

Brookfield Asset Management presently has a consensus price target of $63.86, indicating a potential upside of 20.36%. BTCS has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 131.02%. Given BTCS’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BTCS is more favorable than Brookfield Asset Management.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Brookfield Asset Management and BTCS”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Brookfield Asset Management	$3.98 billion	21.83	$541.00 million	$1.60	33.16
BTCS	$4.07 million	34.87	-$1.27 million	$0.72	4.21

Brookfield Asset Management has higher revenue and earnings than BTCS. BTCS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Brookfield Asset Management and BTCS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Brookfield Asset Management	58.25%	33.77%	19.82%
BTCS	464.44%	-25.01%	-18.86%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

68.4% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.5% of BTCS shares are held by institutional investors. 42.8% of BTCS shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Brookfield Asset Management beats BTCS on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Brookfield Asset Management

Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. is a real estate investment firm specializing in alternative asset management services. Its renewable power and transition business includes the operates in the hydroelectric, wind, solar, distributed generation, and sustainable solution sector. The company's infrastructure business engages in the utilities, transport, midstream, and data infrastructure sectors. In addition, its private equity business offers industrial, infrastructure, and business services sectors; and real estate business, which includes housing, logistics, hospitality, science and innovation, office, and retail sectors. Further, it provides credit business; and insurance solution in the reinsurance, annuities, operating platform, and investment solutions sectors. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. was incorporated in 2022 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

About BTCS

BTCS Inc. operates in blockchain technology sector the United States. Its blockchain-infrastructure secures and operates validator nodes on disruptive blockchain networks, as well as validates transactions for crypto holding delegations on dPoS blockchains. The company offers StakeSeeker, a cryptocurrency dashboard and staking-as-a-service platform that allows crypto asset holders to earn rewards by participating in network consensus mechanisms; and Builder+, a Ethereum block builder offered to maximize validator earnings by utilizing algorithms to construct optimized blocks for on-chain validation. In addition, it is involved in the development of ChainQ, an AI-powered blockchain data and analytics platform, which allows users to query real-time and historical on-chain blockchain data. The company was formerly known as Bitcoin Shop, Inc. and changed its name to BTCS Inc. in July 2015. BTCS Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Silver Spring, Maryland.