Head-To-Head Comparison: Outdoor (NASDAQ:POWW) & Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT)

Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) and Outdoor (NASDAQ:POWW) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Haverty Furniture Companies and Outdoor’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Haverty Furniture Companies	2.93%	7.15%	3.34%
Outdoor	12.08%	1.90%	1.67%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.4% of Outdoor shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 28.1% of Outdoor shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Haverty Furniture Companies and Outdoor”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Haverty Furniture Companies	$758.99 million	0.57	$19.73 million	$1.36	20.54
Outdoor	$53.75 million	4.80	-$3.54 million	$0.03	74.17

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

Risk & Volatility

Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Outdoor has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Haverty Furniture Companies and Outdoor, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Haverty Furniture Companies	0	2	0	0	2.00
Outdoor	0	1	2	1	3.00

Outdoor has a consensus target price of $2.62, indicating a potential upside of 17.98%. Given Outdoor’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Outdoor is more favorable than Haverty Furniture Companies.

Summary

Outdoor beats Haverty Furniture Companies on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Haverty Furniture Companies

Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of residential furniture and accessories in the United States. The company offers furniture merchandise under the Havertys brand name. It also provides custom upholstery products and eclectic looks; and mattress product lines under the Tempur-Pedic, Serta, Sealy, and Stearns and Foster names. The company sells home furnishings through its retail stores, as well as through its website. Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

About Outdoor

AMMO, Inc. designs, produces, and markets ammunition and ammunition component products for sport and recreational shooters, hunters, individuals seeking home or personal protection, manufacturers, and law enforcement and military agencies. The company's products include STREAK Visual Ammunition that enables shooters to see the path of the bullets fired by them; and Stelth Subsonic ammunition primarily for suppressed firearms. It also owns and operates GunBroker.com, an auction site that supports the lawful sale of firearms, ammunition, and hunting/shooting accessories. In addition, the company's products comprises of armor piercing and hard armor piercing incendiary precision ammunition; and ammunition casings for pistol ammunition through large rifle ammunition. The company has a license agreement with Jeff Rann's ammunition for game hunting. AMMO, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.