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United-Guardian (UG) Competitors

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$9.75 0.00 (0.00%)
(As of 11/22/2024 ET)

UG vs. BRLT, VIOT, PRPL, NTZ, RAY, ATER, FEBO, CPSH, LOBO, and ZAPP

Should you be buying United-Guardian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United-Guardian include Brilliant Earth Group (BRLT), Viomi Technology (VIOT), Purple Innovation (PRPL), Natuzzi (NTZ), Raytech (RAY), Aterian (ATER), Fenbo (FEBO), CPS Technologies (CPSH), Lobo EV Technologies (LOBO), and Zapp Electric Vehicles Group (ZAPP). These companies are all part of the "consumer goods" industry.

United-Guardian vs.

Brilliant Earth Group (NASDAQ:BRLT) and United-Guardian (NASDAQ:UG) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.

Brilliant Earth Group has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United-Guardian has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Brilliant Earth Group currently has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 74.42%. Given Brilliant Earth Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Brilliant Earth Group is more favorable than United-Guardian.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Brilliant Earth Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
United-Guardian
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

70.4% of Brilliant Earth Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.2% of United-Guardian shares are owned by institutional investors. 84.7% of Brilliant Earth Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of United-Guardian shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Brilliant Earth Group had 2 more articles in the media than United-Guardian. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Brilliant Earth Group and 0 mentions for United-Guardian. Brilliant Earth Group's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat United-Guardian's score of -0.55 indicating that Brilliant Earth Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Brilliant Earth Group Positive
United-Guardian Negative

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Brilliant Earth Group$446.38M0.38$580K$0.0357.35
United-Guardian$12.31M3.63$2.58M$0.7612.83

United-Guardian has a net margin of 28.30% compared to Brilliant Earth Group's net margin of 0.50%. United-Guardian's return on equity of 30.25% beat Brilliant Earth Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Brilliant Earth Group0.50% 3.09% 1.15%
United-Guardian 28.30%30.25%26.26%

United-Guardian received 159 more outperform votes than Brilliant Earth Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.90% of users gave United-Guardian an outperform vote while only 59.32% of users gave Brilliant Earth Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Brilliant Earth GroupOutperform Votes
35
59.32%
Underperform Votes
24
40.68%
United-GuardianOutperform Votes
194
74.90%
Underperform Votes
65
25.10%

Summary

Brilliant Earth Group beats United-Guardian on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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UG vs. The Competition

MetricUnited-GuardianToilet preparations IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$44.75M$12.06B$5.38B$8.84B
Dividend Yield7.21%3.16%5.13%4.09%
P/E Ratio12.8332.77105.1417.83
Price / Sales3.637.381,233.15158.41
Price / Cash17.1219.2240.4136.29
Price / Book3.939.047.096.50
Net Income$2.58M$353.66M$119.65M$226.22M
7 Day Performance2.09%4.76%2.25%4.03%
1 Month Performance-24.30%4.27%-2.33%4.92%
1 Year Performance25.00%15.93%33.98%29.30%

United-Guardian Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UG
United-Guardian
1.4586 of 5 stars
$9.75
flat
N/A+25.0%$44.75M$12.31M12.8320
BRLT
Brilliant Earth Group
3.9099 of 5 stars
$1.72
+4.2%
$3.00
+74.4%
-27.7%$169.51M$446.38M56.69668Positive News
High Trading Volume
VIOT
Viomi Technology
N/A$1.48
-3.3%
N/A+54.2%$100.97M$351.19M0.001,470
PRPL
Purple Innovation
2.3525 of 5 stars
$0.88
+3.5%
$2.53
+186.2%
+27.8%$95.02M$504.84M-0.851,700
NTZ
Natuzzi
0.3837 of 5 stars
$4.33
flat
N/AN/A$47.64M$327.92M0.003,587
RAY
Raytech
N/A$1.49
-3.9%
N/AN/A$26.24M$66.97M0.00N/A
ATER
Aterian
1.2076 of 5 stars
$2.58
+7.5%
N/A-37.4%$22.60M$142.57M-0.94160Gap Up
FEBO
Fenbo
N/A$1.99
-9.1%
N/AN/A$21.89M$15.25M0.00284
CPSH
CPS Technologies
0.6779 of 5 stars
$1.47
+0.7%
N/A-39.0%$21.35M$21.94M-10.50100
LOBO
Lobo EV Technologies
N/A2.07
-10.8%
N/AN/A$16.11M$19.47M0.0085Gap Down
ZAPP
Zapp Electric Vehicles Group
3.0164 of 5 stars
$1.88
-3.1%
$7.00
+272.3%
-63.8%$5.88MN/A0.0032Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:UG) was last updated on 11/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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