Reviewing Growlife (OTCMKTS:PHOT) and Pigeon (OTCMKTS:PGENY)

Profitability

This table compares Growlife and Pigeon’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Growlife	N/A	N/A	N/A
Pigeon	8.82%	11.95%	9.29%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Growlife and Pigeon”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Growlife	N/A	N/A	-$4.48 million	($0.16)	0.00
Pigeon	$688.99 million	1.94	$55.26 million	$0.13	21.54

Pigeon has higher revenue and earnings than Growlife. Growlife is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pigeon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Growlife has a beta of 2.3, indicating that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pigeon has a beta of 0.11, indicating that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pigeon beats Growlife on 7 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Growlife

GrowLife, Inc. focuses on the functional mushroom business. It processes, stores, markets, distributes, and sells fresh and dried mushroom products. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

About Pigeon

Pigeon Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture, sale, import, and export of baby and child-care products, maternity items, women’s care products, home healthcare products, and nursing care products in Japan and internationally. The company operates in four segments: Japan Business, China Business, Singapore Business, and Lansinoh Business. The company is involved in the provision of baby and mother care products, such as nursing bottles and nipples, toiletries, breast pads, breast pumps, nipple care products, breast milk storage bags, and breastfeeding-related products under Pigeon and Lansinoh brands. It also offers non-woven products, baby strollers, aging-prevention products, wet wipes, skincare products, cleaning and disinfecting products, and elder care products and services. In addition, the company provides child-minding and daycare services, in-home nursing care support services, outpatient care facility services, operation of in-company childcare facilities, daycare services, event childcare services, babysitter dispatch services, preschool education services, and at-home elder care services. The company was formerly known as Pigeon Honyuki Honpo Corporation and changed its name to Pigeon Corporation in 1966. Pigeon Corporation was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.