Financial Survey: Integrated Ventures (OTCMKTS:INTV) versus BTCS (NASDAQ:BTCS)

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Integrated Ventures and BTCS, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Integrated Ventures	0	0	0	0	N/A
BTCS	0	0	1	0	3.00

BTCS has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 116.61%. Given BTCS’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BTCS is more favorable than Integrated Ventures.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Integrated Ventures and BTCS’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Integrated Ventures	$3.86 million	1.21	-$25.46 million	($12.66)	-0.07
BTCS	$1.34 million	16.23	$7.82 million	$1.29	1.07

BTCS has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Integrated Ventures. Integrated Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BTCS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

3.5% of BTCS shares are held by institutional investors. 30.1% of Integrated Ventures shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 40.2% of BTCS shares are held 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 Integrated Ventures and BTCS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Integrated Ventures	-498.40%	-3,899.18%	-526.91%
BTCS	1,519.73%	-20.75%	-17.64%

Risk and Volatility

Integrated Ventures has a beta of 3.25, indicating that its share price is 225% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BTCS has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

BTCS beats Integrated Ventures on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Integrated Ventures

Integrated Ventures, Inc. engages in the mining of digital currency. The company manufactures and sells mining equipment and mining rigs; as well as develops blockchain software. It also provides transaction verification services for digital currency networks of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Quant, and Dogecoin. The company is based in Tioga, Pennsylvania.

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.