Financial Survey: BTCS (NASDAQ:BTCS) and Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE:BAM)

BTCS (NASDAQ:BTCS) and Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE:BAM) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

3.5% of BTCS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.4% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.8% of BTCS shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Brookfield Asset Management shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for BTCS and Brookfield Asset Management, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BTCS	0	2	1	0	2.33
Brookfield Asset Management	2	8	7	2	2.47

BTCS currently has a consensus target price of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 140.55%. Brookfield Asset Management has a consensus target price of $63.86, indicating a potential upside of 19.65%. Given BTCS’s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe BTCS is more favorable than Brookfield Asset Management.

Profitability

This table compares BTCS and Brookfield Asset Management’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BTCS	464.44%	-25.01%	-18.86%
Brookfield Asset Management	58.25%	33.77%	19.82%

Dividends

BTCS pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Brookfield Asset Management pays an annual dividend of $1.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. BTCS pays out 6.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brookfield Asset Management pays out 109.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brookfield Asset Management has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Brookfield Asset Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BTCS and Brookfield Asset Management”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BTCS	$11.72 million	11.62	-$1.27 million	$0.72	4.04
Brookfield Asset Management	$3.98 billion	21.96	$541.00 million	$1.60	33.36

Brookfield Asset Management has higher revenue and earnings than BTCS. BTCS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

BTCS has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brookfield Asset Management has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Brookfield Asset Management beats BTCS on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BTCS

BTCS Inc. operates in blockchain technology sector the United States. Its blockchain-infrastructure secures and operates validator nodes on disruptive blockchain networks, as well as validates transactions for crypto holding delegations on dPoS blockchains. The company offers StakeSeeker, a cryptocurrency dashboard and staking-as-a-service platform that allows crypto asset holders to earn rewards by participating in network consensus mechanisms; and Builder+, a Ethereum block builder offered to maximize validator earnings by utilizing algorithms to construct optimized blocks for on-chain validation. In addition, it is involved in the development of ChainQ, an AI-powered blockchain data and analytics platform, which allows users to query real-time and historical on-chain blockchain data. The company was formerly known as Bitcoin Shop, Inc. and changed its name to BTCS Inc. in July 2015. BTCS Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Silver Spring, Maryland.

About Brookfield Asset Management

Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. is a real estate investment firm specializing in alternative asset management services. Its renewable power and transition business includes the operates in the hydroelectric, wind, solar, distributed generation, and sustainable solution sector. The company's infrastructure business engages in the utilities, transport, midstream, and data infrastructure sectors. In addition, its private equity business offers industrial, infrastructure, and business services sectors; and real estate business, which includes housing, logistics, hospitality, science and innovation, office, and retail sectors. Further, it provides credit business; and insurance solution in the reinsurance, annuities, operating platform, and investment solutions sectors. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. was incorporated in 2022 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.