BSET vs. HOFT, FLXS, ETH, TPX, MHK, LZB, LEG, MBC, ETD, and BALY
Should you be buying Bassett Furniture Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bassett Furniture Industries include Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), Ethan Allen Interiors (ETH), Tempur Sealy International (TPX), Mohawk Industries (MHK), La-Z-Boy (LZB), Leggett & Platt (LEG), MasterBrand (MBC), Ethan Allen Interiors (ETD), and Bally's (BALY).
Hooker Furnishings (NASDAQ:HOFT) and Bassett Furniture Industries (NASDAQ:BSET) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Hooker Furnishings pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Bassett Furniture Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Hooker Furnishings pays out 101.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bassett Furniture Industries pays out -107.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hooker Furnishings has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years and Bassett Furniture Industries has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Hooker Furnishings is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Hooker Furnishings has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bassett Furniture Industries has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
73.6% of Hooker Furnishings shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Bassett Furniture Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Hooker Furnishings shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Bassett Furniture Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hooker Furnishings had 4 more articles in the media than Bassett Furniture Industries. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Hooker Furnishings and 4 mentions for Bassett Furniture Industries. Bassett Furniture Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Hooker Furnishings' score of 0.15 indicating that Hooker Furnishings is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hooker Furnishings has a net margin of 2.28% compared to Hooker Furnishings' net margin of -1.57%. Bassett Furniture Industries' return on equity of 4.33% beat Hooker Furnishings' return on equity.
Hooker Furnishings has higher revenue and earnings than Bassett Furniture Industries. Bassett Furniture Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hooker Furnishings, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bassett Furniture Industries received 73 more outperform votes than Hooker Furnishings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.91% of users gave Bassett Furniture Industries an outperform vote while only 57.61% of users gave Hooker Furnishings an outperform vote.
Summary
Hooker Furnishings beats Bassett Furniture Industries on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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