RMCF vs. NXPL, KIRK, BYU, TAIT, AHG, JCTCF, GVH, WBUY, MOGU, and GTIM
Should you be buying Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory include NextPlat (NXPL), Kirkland's (KIRK), BAIYU (BYU), Taitron Components (TAIT), Akso Health Group (AHG), Jewett-Cameron Trading (JCTCF), Globavend (GVH), Webuy Global (WBUY), MOGU (MOGU), and Good Times Restaurants (GTIM). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (NASDAQ:RMCF) and NextPlat (NASDAQ:NXPL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
50.3% of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of NextPlat shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.9% of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 49.9% of NextPlat 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.
NextPlat has higher revenue and earnings than Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NextPlat, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory received 199 more outperform votes than NextPlat when rated by MarketBeat users.
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextPlat has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory both had 2 articles in the media. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat NextPlat's score of -0.01 indicating that Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NextPlat has a net margin of -10.01% compared to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory's net margin of -14.88%. NextPlat's return on equity of 13.02% beat Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory's return on equity.
Summary
NextPlat beats Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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