Head to Head Review: Mentor Capital (OTCMKTS:MNTR) and HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE)

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Mentor Capital and HIVE Digital Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

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

HIVE Digital Technologies has a consensus target price of $6.90, suggesting a potential upside of 71.22%. Given HIVE Digital Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HIVE Digital Technologies is more favorable than Mentor Capital.

Profitability

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

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

Volatility and Risk

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

24.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 23.7% of Mentor Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.4% of HIVE Digital Technologies shares are held by company 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.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mentor Capital	$170,000.00	4.67	-$570,000.00	($0.03)	-1.22
HIVE Digital Technologies	$297.79 million	3.58	-$148.45 million	($0.56)	-7.20

Mentor Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.

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.

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.