Chime Financial (NASDAQ:CHYM – Get Free Report) and TaoWeave (NASDAQ:TWAV – Get Free Report) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends and valuation.
Profitability
This table compares Chime Financial and TaoWeave’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Chime Financial | -0.74% | -1.28% | -0.92% |
| TaoWeave | -272.06% | -108.74% | -94.22% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Chime Financial and TaoWeave, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Chime Financial | 1 | 2 | 17 | 4 | 3.00 |
| TaoWeave | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Chime Financial and TaoWeave”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Chime Financial | $2.46 billion | 4.08 | -$1.01 billion | ($0.07) | -378.00 |
| TaoWeave | $2.44 million | 2.53 | -$6.36 million | ($1.60) | -0.99 |
TaoWeave has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chime Financial. Chime Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TaoWeave, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
2.0% of TaoWeave shares are held by institutional investors. 12.3% of Chime Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of TaoWeave shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Risk and Volatility
Chime Financial has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TaoWeave has a beta of 2.55, suggesting that its stock price is 155% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Chime Financial beats TaoWeave on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Chime Financial
Chime is a financial technology company that partners with federally regulated, FDIC-insured banks—The Bancorp Bank, N.A. and Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC—to provide consumer banking products and services. The company’s model is designed to eliminate common fees and simplify access to basic financial services.
Chime does not charge overdraft fees, monthly service fees, or require minimum balances. All account balances are held at partner banks and protected by applicable regulatory safeguards to ensure funds remain secure and accessible.
About TaoWeave
Oblong Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides multi-stream collaboration technologies and managed services for video collaboration and network applications in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Collaboration Products and Managed Services. Its flagship product is Mezzanine that enables visual collaboration across multi-users, multi-screens, multi-devices, and multi-locations for video telepresence, laptop and application sharing, and whiteboard sharing and slides applications. The company also provides managed videoconferencing services; and remote service management, which provides an overlay to enterprise information technology and channel partner support organizations, as well as support and management services for customer video environments. In addition, it offers network services comprising Cloud Connect: Video that allows its customers to outsource the management of their video traffic to them and provides the customer’s office locations with a secure, dedicated video network connection to the Oblong Cloud for video communications; Cloud Connect: Converge, which offers customized multiprotocol label switching solutions; and Cloud Connect: Cross Connect that allows the customer to leverage existing carrier for the extension of a Layer 2 private line to its data center. Further, it provides professional services, such as software development, visual and interaction design, engineering, and project support services; and resells video equipment to its customers. Oblong Inc. is based in Conifer, Colorado.
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