Haverty Furniture Companies (HVT.A) Competitors

Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT.A) and Grocery Outlet (NASDAQ:GO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and dividends.

Is HVT.A or GO more profitable?

Grocery Outlet has a net margin of 1.20% compared to Haverty Furniture Companies' net margin of 0.00%. Grocery Outlet's return on equity of 5.25% beat Haverty Furniture Companies' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Haverty Furniture Companies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Grocery Outlet	1.20%	5.25%	2.11%

Do analysts prefer HVT.A or GO?

Grocery Outlet has a consensus target price of $15.62, indicating a potential upside of 16.19%. Given Grocery Outlet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Grocery Outlet is more favorable than Haverty Furniture Companies.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Haverty Furniture Companies	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Grocery Outlet	2 Sell rating(s)	9 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.14

Which has more volatility and risk, HVT.A or GO?

Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grocery Outlet has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in HVT.A or GO?

Haverty Furniture Companies received 28 more outperform votes than Grocery Outlet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.38% of users gave Haverty Furniture Companies an outperform vote while only 32.41% of users gave Grocery Outlet an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Haverty Furniture Companies	Outperform Votes 63 62.38%	Underperform Votes 38 37.62%
Grocery Outlet	Outperform Votes 35 32.41%	Underperform Votes 73 67.59%

Does the media refer more to HVT.A or GO?

In the previous week, Grocery Outlet had 9 more articles in the media than Haverty Furniture Companies. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Grocery Outlet and 1 mentions for Haverty Furniture Companies. Haverty Furniture Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Grocery Outlet's score of 0.82 indicating that Haverty Furniture Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Haverty Furniture Companies	Positive
Grocery Outlet	Positive

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of HVT.A or GO?

0.8% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Grocery Outlet shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Grocery Outlet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, HVT.A or GO?

Grocery Outlet has higher revenue and earnings than Haverty Furniture Companies. Haverty Furniture Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grocery Outlet, 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
Haverty Furniture Companies	$720.47M	0.46	$20.35M	$1.26	16.41
Grocery Outlet	$4.46B	0.30	$79.44M	$0.16	84.00

Summary

Grocery Outlet beats Haverty Furniture Companies on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.