Comparing Mentor Capital (OTCMKTS:MNTR) & HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE)

HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE) and Mentor Capital (OTCMKTS:MNTR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares HIVE Digital Technologies and Mentor Capital”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HIVE Digital Technologies	$297.79 million	4.60	-$148.45 million	($0.56)	-9.25
Mentor Capital	$170,000.00	4.78	-$570,000.00	($0.03)	-1.25

Mentor Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than HIVE Digital Technologies. HIVE Digital Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mentor Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for HIVE Digital Technologies and Mentor Capital, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HIVE Digital Technologies	1	2	6	0	2.56
Mentor Capital	0	0	0	0	0.00

HIVE Digital Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $6.90, suggesting a potential upside of 33.15%. Given HIVE Digital Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe HIVE Digital Technologies is more favorable than Mentor Capital.

Risk and Volatility

HIVE Digital Technologies has a beta of 3.74, suggesting that its share price is 274% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mentor Capital has a beta of -0.84, suggesting that its share price is 184% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

24.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.7% of Mentor Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares HIVE Digital Technologies and Mentor Capital’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HIVE Digital Technologies	-49.21%	-23.12%	-20.33%
Mentor Capital	-261.84%	-23.05%	-18.62%

About HIVE Digital Technologies

HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. operates as a cryptocurrency mining company in Canada, Sweden, and Iceland. The company engages in the mining and sale of digital currencies, including Ethereum Classic, Bitcoin, and other coins. It also operates data centers; and offers infrastructure solutions. The company was formerly known as HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd. and changed its name to HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. in July 2023. HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

About Mentor Capital

Mentor Capital, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions and emerging growth investments. The firm provides passive equity funding and liquidity to smaller companies and owners in the medical, marijuana and social use cannabis companies. It invests in shelf IPO’s and public and private companies and seeks to provide public market access to owners of small private companies. The firm specializes in pre-IPO investments in Cannabis companies. It seeks to invest in energy sector of oil and gas, coal, uranium. In case of shelf IPO’s, the firm prefers to invest in companies with sales greater than $40 million. It prefers to take significant position in its portfolio companies. The firm invests only in companies that have earnings. Mentor Capital, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in Plano, Texas.