NHTC vs. HYFM, EDUC, NUS, USNA, CENT, CENTA, VSTS, NRDY, DOYU, and MYPS
Should you be buying Natural Health Trends stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Natural Health Trends include Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), Educational Development (EDUC), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Central Garden & Pet (CENT), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Vestis (VSTS), Nerdy (NRDY), DouYu International (DOYU), and PLAYSTUDIOS (MYPS).
Hydrofarm Holdings Group (NASDAQ:HYFM) and Natural Health Trends (NASDAQ:NHTC) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
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.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group presently has a consensus target price of $0.90, suggesting a potential upside of 11.80%. Given Natural Health Trends' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Hydrofarm Holdings Group is more favorable than Natural Health Trends.
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.
Natural Health Trends has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
In the previous week, Hydrofarm Holdings Group and Hydrofarm Holdings Group 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 news media.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group has a beta of 1.92, meaning that its stock price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Natural Health Trends has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
26.6% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.1% of Natural Health Trends shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Natural Health Trends shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Natural Health Trends beats Hydrofarm Holdings Group on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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