IREN (NASDAQ:IREN – Get Free Report) and Bridgeline Digital (NASDAQ:BLIN – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Profitability
This table compares IREN and Bridgeline Digital’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| IREN | -99.38% | -15.46% | -5.51% |
| Bridgeline Digital | -8.65% | -14.51% | -8.76% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares IREN and Bridgeline Digital”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| IREN | $707.01 million | 24.32 | -$702.62 million | ($2.34) | -18.65 |
| Bridgeline Digital | $15.38 million | 0.75 | -$2.52 million | ($0.12) | -7.58 |
Bridgeline Digital has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Risk & Volatility
IREN has a beta of 4.28, indicating that its stock price is 328% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridgeline Digital has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
41.1% of IREN shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.1% of Bridgeline Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of IREN shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.5% of Bridgeline Digital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for IREN and Bridgeline Digital, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| IREN | 2 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 2.71 |
| Bridgeline Digital | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
IREN presently has a consensus price target of $81.57, indicating a potential upside of 86.92%. Bridgeline Digital has a consensus price target of $4.62, indicating a potential upside of 407.69%. Given Bridgeline Digital’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bridgeline Digital is more favorable than IREN.
Summary
IREN beats Bridgeline Digital on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
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.
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