NHTC vs. HYFM, EDUC, NUS, USNA, CENT, CENTA, VSTS, NRDY, DOYU, and MYPS
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), Nerdy (NRDY), DouYu International (DOYU), and PLAYSTUDIOS (MYPS).
Hydrofarm Holdings Group (NASDAQ:HYFM) and Natural Health Trends (NASDAQ:NHTC) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, Natural Health Trends had 1 more articles in the media than Hydrofarm Holdings Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Natural Health Trends and 2 mentions for Hydrofarm Holdings Group. Hydrofarm Holdings Group's average media sentiment score of 1.90 beat Natural Health Trends' score of 1.87 indicating that Natural Health Trends is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group has a beta of 1.92, suggesting that its stock price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Natural Health Trends has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group currently has a consensus price target of $0.90, indicating a potential upside of 13.88%. Given Natural Health Trends' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Hydrofarm Holdings Group is more favorable than Natural Health Trends.
Natural Health Trends has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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 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.
26.6% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.1% of Natural Health Trends shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Natural Health Trends shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Summary
Natural Health Trends beats Hydrofarm Holdings Group on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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