UGRO vs. HYFM, LTCH, DTCK, GWAV, TAIT, SAG, HKPD, SCNX, COSM, and EDUC
Should you be buying urban-gro stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of urban-gro include Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), Latch (LTCH), Davis Commodities (DTCK), Greenwave Technology Solutions (GWAV), Taitron Components (TAIT), SAG (SAG), Hong Kong Pharma Digital Technology (HKPD), Scienture (SCNX), Cosmos Health (COSM), and Educational Development (EDUC). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.
urban-gro vs.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group (NASDAQ:HYFM) and urban-gro (NASDAQ:UGRO) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group received 18 more outperform votes than urban-gro when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.00% of users gave urban-gro an outperform vote while only 46.55% of users gave Hydrofarm Holdings Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Hydrofarm Holdings Group had 1 more articles in the media than urban-gro. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Hydrofarm Holdings Group and 0 mentions for urban-gro. urban-gro's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Hydrofarm Holdings Group's score of -0.34 indicating that urban-gro is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
urban-gro has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hydrofarm Holdings Group. urban-gro 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.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 120.13%. Given Hydrofarm Holdings Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Hydrofarm Holdings Group is more favorable than urban-gro.
26.6% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.6% of urban-gro shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.9% of urban-gro shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
urban-gro has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Hydrofarm Holdings Group's net margin of -32.18%. urban-gro's return on equity of 0.00% beat Hydrofarm Holdings Group's return on equity.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group has a beta of 2.21, suggesting that its share price is 121% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, urban-gro has a beta of 2.04, suggesting that its share price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
urban-gro beats Hydrofarm Holdings Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:UGRO) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff