Reviewing HomesToLife (HTLM) and Its Rivals

HomesToLife (NASDAQ:HTLM) is one of 17 public companies in the “FURNITURE” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare HomesToLife to related companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for HomesToLife and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HomesToLife	1	0	0	0	1.00
HomesToLife Competitors	74	546	319	58	2.36

As a group, “FURNITURE” companies have a potential upside of 28.52%. Given HomesToLife’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe HomesToLife has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

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	N/A	N/A	N/A
HomesToLife Competitors	-2.77%	-28.91%	-1.99%

Valuation & 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	$4.17 million	-$1.67 million	322.00
HomesToLife Competitors	$1.42 billion	-$10.34 million	24.91

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

62.4% of shares of all “FURNITURE” companies are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of shares of all “FURNITURE” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

HomesToLife peers beat HomesToLife on 7 of the 12 factors compared.

HomesToLife Company Profile

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.