With stocks, owners can benefit from the company's profits or capital. Profits can be paid out as dividends, and capital can be liquidated or used to repurchase shares.
so many coins and tokens in crypto have a lot of similar features like stocks. you can earn profits by holding them or staking them in their native platforms. for example ethereum and other POS coins.
and so many defi tokens have similar utilities too.
I'm not very expert but to me cryptocurrencies are pretty much assets and I am happy with that.