NHTC vs. HYFM, EDUC, NUS, USNA, CENT, CENTA, VSTS, WEYS, AAN, and COOK
Should you be buying Natural Health Trends stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Natural Health Trends include Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), Educational Development (EDUC), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Central Garden & Pet (CENT), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Vestis (VSTS), Weyco Group (WEYS), Aaron's (AAN), and Traeger (COOK).
Natural Health Trends (NASDAQ:NHTC) and Hydrofarm Holdings Group (NASDAQ:HYFM) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group has a consensus price target of $0.90, indicating a potential upside of 37.24%. Given Hydrofarm Holdings Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hydrofarm Holdings Group is more favorable than Natural Health Trends.
Natural Health Trends has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hydrofarm Holdings Group. Hydrofarm Holdings 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 has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hydrofarm Holdings Group has a beta of 1.81, indicating that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Natural Health Trends has a net margin of 1.16% compared to Hydrofarm Holdings Group's net margin of -27.71%. Natural Health Trends' return on equity of 1.18% beat Hydrofarm Holdings Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Natural Health Trends had 3 more articles in the media than Hydrofarm Holdings Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Natural Health Trends and 3 mentions for Hydrofarm Holdings Group. Natural Health Trends' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Hydrofarm Holdings Group's score of 0.63 indicating that Natural Health Trends is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Natural Health Trends received 145 more outperform votes than Hydrofarm Holdings Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.93% of users gave Natural Health Trends an outperform vote while only 48.21% of users gave Hydrofarm Holdings Group an outperform vote.
10.1% of Natural Health Trends shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.6% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are held by institutional investors. 13.3% of Natural Health Trends shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are held 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.
Summary
Natural Health Trends beats Hydrofarm Holdings Group on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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