Head to Head Survey: Cleanspark (NASDAQ:CLSK) versus Cheetah Mobile (NYSE:CMCM)

Cheetah Mobile (NYSE:CMCM) and Cleanspark (NASDAQ:CLSK) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.

Volatility and Risk

Cheetah Mobile has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cleanspark has a beta of 3.84, indicating that its share price is 284% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Cheetah Mobile and Cleanspark”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cheetah Mobile	$1.12 billion	0.07	-$36.85 million	($1.51)	-1.63
Cleanspark	$766.31 million	2.75	$364.46 million	($3.77)	-2.18

Cleanspark has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cheetah Mobile. Cleanspark is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cheetah Mobile, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Cheetah Mobile and Cleanspark’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cheetah Mobile	-28.11%	-8.54%	-3.22%
Cleanspark	-146.90%	-18.63%	-8.15%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Cheetah Mobile and Cleanspark, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cheetah Mobile	1	0	0	0	1.00
Cleanspark	2	0	14	1	2.82

Cleanspark has a consensus price target of $23.11, suggesting a potential upside of 181.79%. Given Cleanspark’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cleanspark is more favorable than Cheetah Mobile.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.4% of Cheetah Mobile shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of Cleanspark shares are held by institutional investors. 17.1% of Cheetah Mobile shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Cleanspark shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Cleanspark beats Cheetah Mobile on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Cheetah Mobile

Cheetah Mobile Inc. along with its subsidiaries, engages in provision of internet services, artificial intelligence, and other services in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Japan, and internationally. The company's internet products include Duba Anti-virus, an internet security application to protect users against known and unknown security threats and malicious applications; and Clean Master, a junk file cleaning, memory boosting, and privacy protection tool for mobile devices. It also offers value-added products, such as PC and mobile products, as well as wallpaper, office optimization software, and others; E-Coupon vending robot, a delivery and reception robot, which includes marketing campaigns and services; and multi-cloud management platform and overseas advertising agency service. In addition, the company provides mobile advertising services; duba.com personal start page that aggregates online resources and provides users access to their online destinations, such as online shopping, video, online game, travel, and local information; artificial intelligence and other services; and premium membership services. It serves mobile advertising networks and partners, e-commerce companies, mobile application developers, and mobile game developers, as well as individual customers. The company was formerly known as Kingsoft Internet Software Holdings Limited and changed its name to Cheetah Mobile Inc. in March 2014. Cheetah Mobile Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.

About Cleanspark

CleanSpark, Inc. operates as a bitcoin miner in the Americas. It owns and operates data centers that primarily run on low-carbon power. Its infrastructure supports Bitcoin, a digital commodity and a tool for financial independence and inclusion. The company was formerly known as Stratean Inc. and changed its name to CleanSpark, Inc. in November 2016. CleanSpark, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada.