HOFT vs. FLXS, BSET, CSPR, KBAL, TPX, MHK, LZB, LEG, SNBR, and PRPL
Should you be buying Hooker Furnishings stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hooker Furnishings include Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), Bassett Furniture Industries (BSET), Casper Sleep (CSPR), Kimball International (KBAL), Tempur Sealy International (TPX), Mohawk Industries (MHK), La-Z-Boy (LZB), Leggett & Platt (LEG), Sleep Number (SNBR), and Purple Innovation (PRPL).
Hooker Furnishings (NASDAQ:HOFT) and Flexsteel Industries (NASDAQ:FLXS) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Hooker Furnishings pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Flexsteel Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. 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. Flexsteel Industries pays out 20.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Hooker Furnishings has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flexsteel Industries has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Flexsteel Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hooker Furnishings. Flexsteel 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.
73.6% of Hooker Furnishings shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.3% of Flexsteel Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Hooker Furnishings shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of Flexsteel Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Flexsteel Industries received 8 more outperform votes than Hooker Furnishings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.69% of users gave Flexsteel Industries an outperform vote while only 57.61% of users gave Hooker Furnishings an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Hooker Furnishings and Hooker Furnishings both had 2 articles in the media. Flexsteel Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Hooker Furnishings' score of 0.35 indicating that Flexsteel Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Flexsteel Industries has a net margin of 3.87% compared to Hooker Furnishings' net margin of 2.28%. Flexsteel Industries' return on equity of 6.54% beat Hooker Furnishings' return on equity.
Summary
Flexsteel Industries beats Hooker Furnishings on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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