TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF) & Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) Financial Contrast

TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF) and Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.

Risk & Volatility

TeraWulf has a beta of 3.82, meaning that its share price is 282% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lazard has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

62.5% of TeraWulf shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.8% of Lazard shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.9% of TeraWulf shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Lazard shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares TeraWulf and Lazard’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TeraWulf	-611.46%	-305.07%	-8.42%
Lazard	8.47%	29.30%	5.52%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares TeraWulf and Lazard”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TeraWulf	$168.06 million	78.11	-$661.42 million	($2.48)	-10.68
Lazard	$3.10 billion	1.76	$236.83 million	$2.53	19.29

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for TeraWulf and Lazard, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TeraWulf	1	1	13	1	2.88
Lazard	3	5	4	0	2.08

TeraWulf presently has a consensus price target of $28.95, suggesting a potential upside of 9.27%. Lazard has a consensus price target of $52.56, suggesting a potential upside of 7.70%. Given TeraWulf’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe TeraWulf is more favorable than Lazard.

Summary

TeraWulf beats Lazard on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About TeraWulf

TeraWulf Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital asset technology company in the United States. The company develops, owns, and operates bitcoin mining facilities in New York and Pennsylvania. It is also involved in the provision of miner hosting services to third-party entities. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Easton, Maryland.

About Lazard

Lazard, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a financial advisory and asset management firm in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. It operates in two segments, Financial Advisory and Asset Management. The Financial Advisory segment offers financial advisory services, such as mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, shareholder, sovereign, geopolitical advisory, and other strategic advisory services, as well as restructuring and liability management, and capital raising and placement services. This segment offers its services to corporate, partnership, institutional, government, sovereign, and individual clients to various industry areas, including consumers, financial institutions, healthcare and life sciences, industrials, power and energy/infrastructure, real estate, technology, telecommunication, and media and entertainment. The Asset Management segment offers a range of investment solutions; investment and wealth management services in equity and fixed income strategies; asset allocation strategies; and alternative investments and private equity funds to corporations, public funds, sovereign entities, endowments and foundations, labor funds, financial intermediaries, and private clients. Lazard, Inc. was incorporated in 1848 and is headquartered in New York, New York.