Taitron Components (TAIT) Competitors

Taitron Components (NASDAQ:TAIT) and Natural Health Trends (NASDAQ:NHTC) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, TAIT or NHTC?

Taitron Components has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Natural Health Trends. Taitron Components 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
Taitron Components	$6.11M	2.61	$1.85M	$0.23	11.50
Natural Health Trends	$42.96M	1.28	$570K	$0.06	79.85

Is TAIT or NHTC more profitable?

Taitron Components has a net margin of 30.95% compared to Natural Health Trends' net margin of 1.33%. Taitron Components' return on equity of 7.87% beat Natural Health Trends' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Taitron Components	30.95%	7.87%	7.34%
Natural Health Trends	1.33%	1.53%	0.92%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor TAIT or NHTC?

Natural Health Trends received 89 more outperform votes than Taitron Components when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.64% of users gave Natural Health Trends an outperform vote while only 34.75% of users gave Taitron Components an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Taitron Components	Outperform Votes 106 34.75%	Underperform Votes 199 65.25%
Natural Health Trends	Outperform Votes 195 69.64%	Underperform Votes 85 30.36%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in TAIT or NHTC?

18.1% of Taitron Components shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.1% of Natural Health Trends shares are owned by institutional investors. 60.5% of Taitron Components shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Natural Health Trends shares are owned by 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.

Which has more risk & volatility, TAIT or NHTC?

Taitron Components has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Natural Health Trends has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor TAIT or NHTC?

In the previous week, Taitron Components had 1 more articles in the media than Natural Health Trends. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Taitron Components and 1 mentions for Natural Health Trends. Natural Health Trends' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Taitron Components' score of 0.00 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
Taitron Components	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Natural Health Trends	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is TAIT or NHTC a better dividend stock?

Taitron Components pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Natural Health Trends pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.7%. Taitron Components pays out 87.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Natural Health Trends pays out 1,333.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Summary

Taitron Components beats Natural Health Trends on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.