HNST vs. YSG, NHTC, FLGC, BWMX, BYON, GHG, CDRO, IHRT, POWW, and LINC
Should you be buying Honest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Honest include Yatsen (YSG), Natural Health Trends (NHTC), Flora Growth (FLGC), Betterware de México, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (BWMX), Beyond (BYON), GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG), Codere Online Luxembourg (CDRO), iHeartMedia (IHRT), AMMO (POWW), and Lincoln Educational Services (LINC).
Yatsen (NYSE:YSG) and Honest (NASDAQ:HNST) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
Honest has a consensus target price of $4.55, suggesting a potential upside of 46.30%. Given Yatsen's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Honest is more favorable than Yatsen.
45.5% of Honest shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.0% of Yatsen shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 26.2% of Honest shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Honest received 13 more outperform votes than Yatsen when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 36.36% of users gave Yatsen an outperform vote while only 35.59% of users gave Honest an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Honest had 11 more articles in the media than Yatsen. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Honest and 0 mentions for Yatsen. Yatsen's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Honest's score of 0.00 indicating that Honest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Honest has a net margin of -11.39% compared to Honest's net margin of -21.70%. Honest's return on equity of -7.97% beat Yatsen's return on equity.
Honest has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yatsen. Honest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yatsen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yatsen has a beta of -2.19, indicating that its stock price is 319% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Honest has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Honest beats Yatsen on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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