Natural Health Trends (NHTC) Competitors

HF Foods Group (NASDAQ:HFFG) and Natural Health Trends (NASDAQ:NHTC) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, HFFG or NHTC?

Natural Health Trends has lower revenue, but higher earnings than HF Foods Group. HF Foods 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HF Foods Group	$1.20B	0.18	-$2.17M	-$0.91	-4.38
Natural Health Trends	$42.96M	1.31	$570K	$0.06	81.33

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer HFFG or NHTC?

Natural Health Trends received 193 more outperform votes than HF Foods Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.38% of users gave Natural Health Trends an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave HF Foods Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
HF Foods Group	Outperform Votes 9 42.86%	Underperform Votes 12 57.14%
Natural Health Trends	Outperform Votes 202 70.38%	Underperform Votes 85 29.62%

Does the media favor HFFG or NHTC?

In the previous week, Natural Health Trends had 2 more articles in the media than HF Foods Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Natural Health Trends and 3 mentions for HF Foods Group. Natural Health Trends' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat HF Foods Group's score of 0.30 indicating that Natural Health Trends is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
HF Foods Group	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Natural Health Trends	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do insiders & institutionals believe in HFFG or NHTC?

24.0% of HF Foods Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.1% of Natural Health Trends shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of HF Foods Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Natural Health Trends shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is HFFG or NHTC more profitable?

Natural Health Trends has a net margin of 1.33% compared to HF Foods Group's net margin of -0.16%. HF Foods Group's return on equity of 6.96% beat Natural Health Trends' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HF Foods Group	-0.16%	6.96%	3.30%
Natural Health Trends	1.33%	1.53%	0.92%

Which has more volatility and risk, HFFG or NHTC?

HF Foods Group has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Natural Health Trends has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Natural Health Trends beats HF Foods Group on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.