BSET vs. FLXS, HOFT, ETH, TPX, MHK, LZB, LEG, MBC, ETD, and FNKO
Should you be buying Bassett Furniture Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bassett Furniture Industries include Flexsteel Industries (FLXS), Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), 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 Funko (FNKO).
Flexsteel Industries (NASDAQ:FLXS) and Bassett Furniture Industries (NASDAQ:BSET) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Flexsteel Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Bassett Furniture Industries. Bassett Furniture Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flexsteel Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Flexsteel Industries has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bassett Furniture Industries has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Flexsteel Industries and Flexsteel Industries both had 2 articles in the media. Flexsteel Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Bassett Furniture Industries' score of 0.43 indicating that Bassett Furniture Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Flexsteel Industries has a net margin of 3.87% compared to Flexsteel Industries' net margin of -4.29%. Bassett Furniture Industries' return on equity of 6.54% beat Flexsteel Industries' return on equity.
Bassett Furniture Industries received 65 more outperform votes than Flexsteel Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.48% of users gave Flexsteel Industries an outperform vote while only 62.91% of users gave Bassett Furniture Industries an outperform vote.
36.3% of Flexsteel Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Bassett Furniture Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.9% of Flexsteel Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Bassett Furniture Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Flexsteel Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Bassett Furniture Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Flexsteel Industries pays out 20.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bassett Furniture Industries pays out -41.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Bassett Furniture Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Flexsteel Industries beats Bassett Furniture Industries on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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