HYFM vs. CGA, GORO, USAU, LODE, FEAM, WWR, UAMY, FSI, ZKIN, and VGZ
Should you be buying Hydrofarm Holdings Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hydrofarm Holdings Group include China Green Agriculture (CGA), Gold Resource (GORO), U.S. Gold (USAU), Comstock (LODE), 5E Advanced Materials (FEAM), Westwater Resources (WWR), United States Antimony (UAMY), Flexible Solutions International (FSI), ZK International Group (ZKIN), and Vista Gold (VGZ). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group (NASDAQ:HYFM) and China Green Agriculture (NYSE:CGA) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group has a beta of 1.95, meaning that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, China Green Agriculture has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group currently has a consensus price target of $0.90, suggesting a potential upside of 9.61%. Given Hydrofarm Holdings Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Hydrofarm Holdings Group is more favorable than China Green Agriculture.
China Green Agriculture has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hydrofarm Holdings Group. China Green Agriculture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hydrofarm Holdings Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
26.6% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of China Green Agriculture shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 34.3% of China Green Agriculture shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
China Green Agriculture received 166 more outperform votes than Hydrofarm Holdings Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.94% of users gave China Green Agriculture an outperform vote while only 48.21% of users gave Hydrofarm Holdings Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, China Green Agriculture had 2 more articles in the media than Hydrofarm Holdings Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for China Green Agriculture and 1 mentions for Hydrofarm Holdings Group. Hydrofarm Holdings Group's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat China Green Agriculture's score of -0.11 indicating that Hydrofarm Holdings Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
China Green Agriculture has a net margin of -14.54% compared to Hydrofarm Holdings Group's net margin of -28.60%. China Green Agriculture's return on equity of -12.68% beat Hydrofarm Holdings Group's return on equity.
Summary
China Green Agriculture beats Hydrofarm Holdings Group on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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