Rumble (NASDAQ:RUM – Get Free Report) and VNET Group (NASDAQ:VNET – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Rumble and VNET Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Rumble | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| VNET Group | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
Rumble currently has a consensus price target of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 57.48%. VNET Group has a consensus price target of $3.35, indicating a potential upside of 20.07%. Given Rumble’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Rumble is more favorable than VNET Group.
Volatility and Risk
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Rumble and VNET Group’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Rumble | $78.58 million | 25.08 | -$116.42 million | ($0.64) | -7.94 |
| VNET Group | $1.04 billion | 0.69 | -$372.38 million | ($2.64) | -1.06 |
Rumble has higher earnings, but lower revenue than VNET Group. Rumble is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VNET Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Rumble and VNET Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Rumble | -163.37% | -54.31% | -44.57% |
| VNET Group | -34.62% | -11.44% | -2.57% |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
26.1% of Rumble shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.8% of VNET Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 72.9% of Rumble shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.1% of VNET Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
VNET Group beats Rumble on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Rumble
Rumble Inc. operates video sharing platforms in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company operates rumble.com, a free-to-use video sharing and livestreaming platform where users can subscribe to channels to stay in touch with creators, and access video on-demand (VOD) and live content streamed by creators. It also operates locals.com, a platform where users can access free content and purchase subscriptions to support creators and access exclusive content in creator communities; Rumble Streaming Marketplace, a patent-pending application designed to enable a first-of-its-kind livestreaming and monetization service for creators; and Rumble Advertising Center (RAC), an online advertising management exchange. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Longboat Key, Florida.
About VNET Group
VNET Group, Inc., an investment holding company, provides hosting and related services in China. It offers managed hosting services consisting of managed retail services, such as colocation services that dedicate data center space to house customers' servers and networking equipment, as well as allow customers to lease partial or entire cabinets for their servers; interconnectivity services that allow customers to connect their servers; value-added services, including hybrid IT, bare metal, firewall, server load balancing, data backup and recovery, data center management, server management, and backup server services; cloud services that allow customers to run applications over the internet using IT infrastructure; and VPN Services that extend customers' private networks by setting up connections through the public internet. The company also provides server administration services, such as operating system support and assistance with updates, server monitoring, server backup and restoration, server security evaluation, firewall services, and disaster recovery services. It serves information technology and cloud services, communications and social networking, gaming and entertainment, e-commerce, automobile, financial services, and blue-chip and small-to-mid-sized enterprises; government agencies; individuals; and telecommunication carriers. The company was formerly known as 21Vianet Group, Inc. and changed its name to VNET Group, Inc. in October 2021. VNET Group, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.
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