Hooker Furnishings (HOFT) Competitors

Flexsteel Industries (NASDAQ:FLXS) and Hooker Furnishings (NASDAQ:HOFT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, FLXS or HOFT?

Flexsteel Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Hooker Furnishings. Hooker Furnishings is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flexsteel Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Flexsteel Industries	$437.28M	0.39	$10.53M	$2.54	12.83
Hooker Furnishings	$397.47M	0.26	$9.86M	-$1.19	-8.03

Which has more risk and volatility, FLXS or HOFT?

Flexsteel Industries has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hooker Furnishings has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor FLXS or HOFT?

Flexsteel Industries received 9 more outperform votes than Hooker Furnishings when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.58% of users gave Flexsteel Industries an outperform vote while only 56.08% of users gave Hooker Furnishings an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Flexsteel Industries	Outperform Votes 221 67.58%	Underperform Votes 106 32.42%
Hooker Furnishings	Outperform Votes 212 56.08%	Underperform Votes 166 43.92%

Does the media refer more to FLXS or HOFT?

In the previous week, Flexsteel Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Hooker Furnishings'average media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Flexsteel Industries	Neutral
Hooker Furnishings	Neutral

Is FLXS or HOFT a better dividend stock?

Flexsteel Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Hooker Furnishings pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Flexsteel Industries pays out 26.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hooker Furnishings pays out -77.3% 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. Flexsteel Industries has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Hooker Furnishings has raised its dividend for 9 consecutive years. Hooker Furnishings is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of FLXS or HOFT?

36.3% of Flexsteel Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Hooker Furnishings shares are held by institutional investors. 15.6% of Flexsteel Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Hooker Furnishings shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is FLXS or HOFT more profitable?

Flexsteel Industries has a net margin of 4.63% compared to Hooker Furnishings' net margin of -2.46%. Flexsteel Industries' return on equity of 11.25% beat Hooker Furnishings' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Flexsteel Industries	4.63%	11.25%	6.33%
Hooker Furnishings	-2.46%	-3.51%	-2.28%

Summary

Flexsteel Industries beats Hooker Furnishings on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.