Reviewing N-able (NYSE:NABL) & Bitfarms (NASDAQ:BITF)

Bitfarms (NASDAQ:BITF) and N-able (NYSE:NABL) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Bitfarms and N-able, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bitfarms	1	1	2	0	2.25
N-able	2	4	2	0	2.00

Bitfarms currently has a consensus target price of $3.90, suggesting a potential upside of 68.83%. N-able has a consensus target price of $5.08, suggesting a potential upside of 1.30%. Given Bitfarms’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Bitfarms is more favorable than N-able.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Bitfarms and N-able”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bitfarms	$229.28 million	6.07	-$138.65 million	($0.23)	-10.04
N-able	$511.43 million	1.85	-$18.82 million	($0.02)	-250.75

N-able has higher revenue and earnings than Bitfarms. N-able is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bitfarms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

20.6% of Bitfarms shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.3% of N-able shares are held by institutional investors. 9.5% of Bitfarms shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of N-able shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

Bitfarms has a beta of 3.77, meaning that its stock price is 277% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, N-able has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Bitfarms and N-able’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bitfarms	-48.26%	-4.48%	-3.71%
N-able	-0.88%	3.55%	2.04%

Summary

N-able beats Bitfarms on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About N-able

N-able, Inc. provides cloud-based software solutions for managed service providers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company's solutions enable MSPs to support digital transformation and growth within small and medium-sized enterprises. It provides software platform designed to be an integrated, enterprise-grade solution that serves as an operating system for its MSP partners and scales as their businesses grow. In addition, the company offers remote monitoring and management solutions provide MSP partners with visibility and insights into the availability and performance of their customers' networks, infrastructure, devices and applications through a centralized dashboard; data protection as-a-service solutions, such as backup and disaster recovery for servers, virtual machines, workstations, files, data, and key cloud-based applications, as well as multi-tenant platform and secure remote delivery architecture. Further, it offers security services through patch management, endpoint security, managed detection and response, web protection, e-mail security, and archiving and vulnerability assessment solutions. Additionally, the company engages in professional services automation, automation and scripting management, password management policies and reporting, and analytics. N-able, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.