HYFM vs. NHTC, EDUC, CENT, CENTA, VSTS, NMG, ASM, TRX, VOXR, and AREC
Should you be buying Hydrofarm Holdings Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hydrofarm Holdings Group include Natural Health Trends (NHTC), Educational Development (EDUC), Central Garden & Pet (CENT), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Vestis (VSTS), Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), TRX Gold (TRX), Vox Royalty (VOXR), and American Resources (AREC).
Natural Health Trends (NASDAQ:NHTC) and Hydrofarm Holdings Group (NASDAQ:HYFM) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
Natural Health Trends has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hydrofarm Holdings Group. Hydrofarm Holdings Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Natural Health Trends, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Natural Health Trends has a net margin of 1.16% compared to Natural Health Trends' net margin of -27.71%. Hydrofarm Holdings Group's return on equity of 1.18% beat Natural Health Trends' return on equity.
10.1% of Natural Health Trends shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.6% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.3% of Natural Health Trends shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Natural Health Trends received 144 more outperform votes than Hydrofarm Holdings Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.32% of users gave Natural Health Trends an outperform vote while only 48.21% of users gave Hydrofarm Holdings Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Natural Health Trends and Natural Health Trends both had 2 articles in the media. Hydrofarm Holdings Group's average media sentiment score of 1.90 beat Natural Health Trends' score of 1.25 indicating that Natural Health Trends is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Natural Health Trends has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hydrofarm Holdings Group has a beta of 1.92, indicating that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group has a consensus price target of $0.90, indicating a potential upside of 11.80%. Given Natural Health Trends' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Hydrofarm Holdings Group is more favorable than Natural Health Trends.
Summary
Natural Health Trends beats Hydrofarm Holdings Group on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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