Financial Survey: HomesToLife (HTLM) and Its Competitors

HomesToLife (NASDAQ:HTLM) is one of 285 publicly-traded companies in the “Specialty Retail” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare HomesToLife to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Profitability

This table compares HomesToLife and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HomesToLife	3.25%	45.31%	9.79%
HomesToLife Competitors	-3.69%	-14.02%	3.17%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for HomesToLife and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HomesToLife	1	0	0	0	1.00
HomesToLife Competitors	3676	15603	21627	590	2.46

As a group, “Specialty Retail” companies have a potential upside of 5.90%. Given HomesToLife’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe HomesToLife has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Risk and Volatility

HomesToLife has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HomesToLife’s peers have a beta of 1.91, indicating that their average share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares HomesToLife and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
HomesToLife	$377.88 million	$16.55 million	7.71
HomesToLife Competitors	$7.05 billion	$386.47 million	30.99

HomesToLife’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than HomesToLife. HomesToLife is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

51.9% of shares of all “Specialty Retail” companies are owned by institutional investors. 20.5% of shares of all “Specialty Retail” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

HomesToLife peers beat HomesToLife on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

About HomesToLife

HomesToLife Ltd. engages in the retail of home furniture and sale of customized furniture solutions. Its products include leather and fabric upholstered furniture, case goods, and accessories. The company was founded by Yong Pin Phua and Yong Tat Phua in September 1989 and is headquartered in Singapore.