Bridgeline Digital (NASDAQ:BLIN – Get Free Report) and IREN (NASDAQ:IREN – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and valuation.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
15.1% of Bridgeline Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of IREN shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.5% of Bridgeline Digital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of IREN shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Bridgeline Digital and IREN”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Bridgeline Digital | $15.62 million | 0.77 | -$2.52 million | ($0.12) | -7.91 |
| IREN | $707.01 million | 22.17 | -$702.62 million | ($2.34) | -18.74 |
Bridgeline Digital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than IREN. IREN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bridgeline Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Bridgeline Digital and IREN’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Bridgeline Digital | -8.65% | -14.51% | -8.76% |
| IREN | -99.38% | -15.46% | -5.51% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Bridgeline Digital and IREN, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Bridgeline Digital | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| IREN | 2 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 2.71 |
Bridgeline Digital presently has a consensus price target of $4.62, suggesting a potential upside of 386.83%. IREN has a consensus price target of $81.57, suggesting a potential upside of 85.99%. Given Bridgeline Digital’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Bridgeline Digital is more favorable than IREN.
Risk & Volatility
Bridgeline Digital has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IREN has a beta of 4.28, indicating that its stock price is 328% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
IREN beats Bridgeline Digital on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Bridgeline Digital
Bridgeline Digital, Inc. operates as a marketing technology company in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company offers HawkSearch, a site search, recommendation, and personalization application for marketers, merchandisers, and developers; Celebros Search, a commerce-oriented site search product that provides natural language processing with artificial intelligence; and Woorank, a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) audit tool that generates an instant performance audit of the site's technical, on-page, and off-page SEO. It also provides Bridgeline TruPresence, a web content management and eCommerce platform to support the needs of multi-unit organizations and franchises; Bridgeline Unbound, a technology suite that empower marketers to easily manage their digital experiences and create personalized customer journeys; and OrchestraCMS, a digital experience platform that enables development of custom solutions, third-party integrations, and delivery of digital transformation initiatives on the Salesforce platform. In addition, the company offers digital engagement services comprising digital strategy, web design and web development, usability engineering, information architecture, and SEO, as well as hosting services. It serves vertical markets, such as industrial distributors and wholesalers, franchises and enterprises, manufacturers, eCommerce retailers, health services and life sciences, technology, credit unions and banks, and associations and foundations through its direct sales force. The company was formerly known as Bridgeline Software, Inc. Bridgeline Digital, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.
About IREN
IREN Limited, formerly known as Iris Energy Limited, owns and operates bitcoin mining data centers. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
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