EDUC vs. HYFM, CENT, CENTA, VSTS, NHTC, GROV, OXUS, MLEC, BHIL, and SEED
Should you be buying Educational Development stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Educational Development include Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), Central Garden & Pet (CENT), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Vestis (VSTS), Natural Health Trends (NHTC), Grove Collaborative (GROV), Oxus Acquisition (OXUS), Moolec Science (MLEC), Benson Hill (BHIL), and Origin Agritech (SEED).
Hydrofarm Holdings Group (NASDAQ:HYFM) and Educational Development (NASDAQ:EDUC) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
26.6% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.6% of Educational Development shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Hydrofarm Holdings Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.2% of Educational Development shares are owned by company 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.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group presently has a consensus target price of $0.90, indicating a potential upside of 13.78%. Given Educational Development's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Hydrofarm Holdings Group is more favorable than Educational Development.
Hydrofarm Holdings Group has a beta of 1.92, suggesting that its stock price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Educational Development has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Educational Development had 47 more articles in the media than Hydrofarm Holdings Group. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for Educational Development and 1 mentions for Hydrofarm Holdings Group. Educational Development's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Hydrofarm Holdings Group's score of 0.19 indicating that Hydrofarm Holdings Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Educational Development received 177 more outperform votes than Hydrofarm Holdings Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.63% of users gave Educational Development an outperform vote while only 48.21% of users gave Hydrofarm Holdings Group an outperform vote.
Educational Development has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hydrofarm Holdings Group. Hydrofarm Holdings Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Educational Development, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Educational Development has a net margin of 1.07% compared to Educational Development's net margin of -27.71%. Hydrofarm Holdings Group's return on equity of 1.20% beat Educational Development's return on equity.
Summary
Educational Development beats Hydrofarm Holdings Group on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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