HYFM vs. NHTC, EDUC, CENT, CENTA, VSTS, NMG, ASM, TRX, VOXR, and AREC
Should you be buying Hydrofarm Holdings Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hydrofarm Holdings Group include Natural Health Trends (NHTC), Educational Development (EDUC), Central Garden & Pet (CENT), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Vestis (VSTS), Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG), Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM), TRX Gold (TRX), Vox Royalty (VOXR), and American Resources (AREC).
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 compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
Natural Health Trends received 144 more outperform votes than Hydrofarm Holdings Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.32% of users gave Natural Health Trends an outperform vote while only 48.21% of users gave Hydrofarm Holdings Group an outperform vote.
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.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Natural Health Trends has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hydrofarm Holdings Group has a beta of 1.92, suggesting that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group has a consensus price target of $0.90, suggesting a potential upside of 13.78%. Given Natural Health Trends' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hydrofarm Holdings Group is more favorable than Natural Health Trends.
Natural Health Trends has a net margin of 1.16% compared to Natural Health Trends' net margin of -27.71%. Hydrofarm Holdings Group's return on equity of 1.18% beat Natural Health Trends' return on equity.
In the previous week, Natural Health Trends had 2 more articles in the media than Hydrofarm Holdings Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Natural Health Trends and 1 mentions for Hydrofarm Holdings Group. Natural Health Trends' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Hydrofarm Holdings Group's score of 1.19 indicating that Hydrofarm Holdings Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Natural Health Trends beats Hydrofarm Holdings Group on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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