NHTC vs. ALTG, HFFG, AENT, MMLP, WGRX, AE, DIT, GDC, CGTL, and RAVE
Should you be buying Natural Health Trends stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Natural Health Trends include Alta Equipment Group (ALTG), HF Foods Group (HFFG), Alliance Entertainment (AENT), Martin Midstream Partners (MMLP), Wellgistics Health (WGRX), Adams Resources & Energy (AE), Amcon Distributing (DIT), GD Culture Group (GDC), Creative Global Technology (CGTL), and Rave Restaurant Group (RAVE). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.
Natural Health Trends vs. Its Competitors
Natural Health Trends (NASDAQ:NHTC) and Alta Equipment Group (NYSE:ALTG) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
Natural Health Trends has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alta Equipment Group has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alta Equipment Group has a consensus target price of $11.25, indicating a potential upside of 91.00%. Given Alta Equipment Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alta Equipment Group is more favorable than Natural Health Trends.
In the previous week, Alta Equipment Group had 1 more articles in the media than Natural Health Trends. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Alta Equipment Group and 1 mentions for Natural Health Trends. Natural Health Trends' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Alta Equipment Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Natural Health Trends is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Natural Health Trends has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alta Equipment Group. Alta Equipment 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.
Natural Health Trends pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.1%. Alta Equipment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Natural Health Trends pays out 1,600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alta Equipment Group pays out -10.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
10.1% of Natural Health Trends shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Alta Equipment Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.6% of Natural Health Trends shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of Alta Equipment Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Natural Health Trends has a net margin of 1.18% compared to Alta Equipment Group's net margin of -3.83%. Natural Health Trends' return on equity of 1.48% beat Alta Equipment Group's return on equity.
Natural Health Trends received 180 more outperform votes than Alta Equipment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.89% of users gave Natural Health Trends an outperform vote while only 54.00% of users gave Alta Equipment Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Natural Health Trends beats Alta Equipment Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NHTC) was last updated on 6/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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