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$3.79 -0.15 (-3.81%)
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$3.82 +0.02 (+0.66%)
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HNST vs. GRDN, ARHS, NEGG, RVLV, TDUP, SPH, RERE, JMIA, GCT, and HEPS

Should you be buying Honest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Honest include Guardian Pharmacy Services (GRDN), Arhaus (ARHS), Newegg Commerce (NEGG), Revolve Group (RVLV), ThredUp (TDUP), Suburban Propane Partners (SPH), ATRenew (RERE), Jumia Technologies (JMIA), GigaCloud Technology (GCT), and D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading (HEPS). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.

Honest vs. Its Competitors

Guardian Pharmacy Services (NYSE:GRDN) and Honest (NASDAQ:HNST) are both small-cap retail companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and valuation.

Guardian Pharmacy Services currently has a consensus target price of $25.67, suggesting a potential downside of 11.26%. Honest has a consensus target price of $6.96, suggesting a potential upside of 83.60%. Given Honest's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Honest is more favorable than Guardian Pharmacy Services.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Guardian Pharmacy Services
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Honest
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.43

In the previous week, Honest had 8 more articles in the media than Guardian Pharmacy Services. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Honest and 1 mentions for Guardian Pharmacy Services. Honest's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Guardian Pharmacy Services' score of 0.14 indicating that Honest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Guardian Pharmacy Services
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Honest
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

45.5% of Honest shares are held by institutional investors. 63.7% of Guardian Pharmacy Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Honest shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Honest has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Guardian Pharmacy Services. Guardian Pharmacy Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Honest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Guardian Pharmacy Services$1.23B1.49-$87.29M-$1.52-19.03
Honest$378.34M1.11-$6.12M$0.0575.80

Honest has a net margin of 1.66% compared to Guardian Pharmacy Services' net margin of -6.90%. Honest's return on equity of 3.84% beat Guardian Pharmacy Services' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Guardian Pharmacy Services-6.90% -52.41% -24.17%
Honest 1.66%3.84%2.67%

Summary

Honest beats Guardian Pharmacy Services on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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HNST vs. The Competition

MetricHonestCONSM PD IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$438.40M$2.33B$8.47B$10.07B
Dividend YieldN/A4.11%3.01%4.53%
P/E Ratio75.8217.1218.3226.01
Price / Sales1.113.025.07117.75
Price / Cash125.7616.6417.0259.95
Price / Book2.191.695.026.20
Net Income-$6.12M$103.49M$255.12M$270.65M
7 Day Performance-4.53%3.66%0.07%2.84%
1 Month Performance-5.25%5.40%19.64%7.23%
1 Year Performance-5.01%-9.82%53.14%26.49%

Honest Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HNST
Honest
2.8419 of 5 stars
$3.79
-3.8%
$6.96
+83.6%
-6.2%$438.40M$378.34M75.82190Positive News
GRDN
Guardian Pharmacy Services
0.3232 of 5 stars
$26.28
+0.5%
$25.67
-2.3%
N/A$1.67B$1.23B-17.293,400
ARHS
Arhaus
2.4859 of 5 stars
$11.73
-0.2%
$10.83
-7.6%
+3.3%$1.65B$1.27B23.462,550Positive News
NEGG
Newegg Commerce
1.1796 of 5 stars
$41.93
-15.3%
N/A+145.9%$1.60B$1.24M0.002,200
RVLV
Revolve Group
3.8641 of 5 stars
$22.38
-1.4%
$27.40
+22.4%
+7.5%$1.59B$1.13B36.101,632Positive News
TDUP
ThredUp
3.6361 of 5 stars
$10.82
-3.4%
$13.00
+20.1%
+1,177.4%$1.33B$260.03M-22.081,630News Coverage
SPH
Suburban Propane Partners
0.9981 of 5 stars
$18.74
+0.7%
N/A+2.2%$1.23B$1.33B12.663,098Positive News
RERE
ATRenew
1.9919 of 5 stars
$4.72
+1.1%
N/A+71.9%$1.15B$2.24B39.342,096
JMIA
Jumia Technologies
0.789 of 5 stars
$8.62
-5.6%
$4.75
-44.9%
+101.5%$1.05B$167.49M0.002,163News Coverage
Positive News
GCT
GigaCloud Technology
2.5765 of 5 stars
$26.47
+1.3%
$24.00
-9.3%
+52.7%$997.02M$1.16B7.951,561Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
HEPS
D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading
2.8681 of 5 stars
$2.76
-1.8%
$3.50
+26.8%
+8.5%$887.02M$1.74B-15.333,743Positive News
Short Interest ↓

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This page (NASDAQ:HNST) was last updated on 9/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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