Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) versus Carbon Streaming (OTCMKTS:OFSTF) Critical Review

Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) and Carbon Streaming (OTCMKTS:OFSTF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Core Scientific and Carbon Streaming, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Core Scientific	0	0	2	0	3.00
Carbon Streaming	0	1	0	0	2.00

Core Scientific presently has a consensus price target of $6.75, suggesting a potential upside of 36.09%. Given Core Scientific’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Core Scientific is more favorable than Carbon Streaming.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Core Scientific and Carbon Streaming’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Core Scientific	$502.40 million	1.76	N/A	N/A	N/A
Carbon Streaming	$1.17 million	14.69	-$35.50 million	($1.47)	-0.24

Core Scientific has higher revenue and earnings than Carbon Streaming.

Profitability

This table compares Core Scientific and Carbon Streaming’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Core Scientific	N/A	N/A	N/A
Carbon Streaming	-4,304.96%	-5.03%	-4.88%

Summary

Core Scientific beats Carbon Streaming on 7 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Core Scientific

Core Scientific, Inc. provides digital asset mining services in North America. It operates through two segments, Mining and Hosting. The company offers blockchain infrastructure, software solutions, and services; and operates data center mining facilities. It also mines digital assets for its own account; and provides hosting services for other large bitcoin miners, which include deployment, monitoring, trouble shooting, optimization, and maintenance of its customers' digital asset mining equipment. In addition, the company provides electrical power, repair, and other infrastructure services to operate, maintain, and earn digital assets; and sells mining equipment to customers. Core Scientific, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Dover, Delaware.

About Carbon Streaming

Carbon Streaming Corporation a carbon credit streaming and royalty company focused on creating shareholder value primarily through the acquisition and sale of carbon credits. It provides capital to carbon projects globally, primarily by entering into or acquiring streaming, royalty or royalty-like arrangements for the purchase of carbon credits. The company was formerly known as Mexivada Mining Corp. and changed its name to Carbon Streaming Corporation in June 2020. Carbon Streaming Corporation was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Burlington, Canada.