They are pretty similar as an investment but I think the main difference is like you said, with stocks, we can have a share or proportion of the company, meanwhile if it's crypto, we don't have such thing. We just have the coin, but it's not tangible so we can't really see or feel it. Other than that, crypto is more regulated, not too much out of control, and has less risk too. Meanwhile crypto has higher risk, but of course bigger profits in return as well. None of them is really better than each other, it's all depend on the person, whether they like crypto more or stocks more. All will have different opinion. Although i myself prefer crypto for a long term investment, especially bitcoin, meanwhile stocks is more suitable for trading for me.