Head to Head Contrast: LQR House (YHC) and Its Rivals

LQR House (NASDAQ:YHC) is one of 149 publicly-traded companies in the “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare LQR House to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, earnings and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares LQR House and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
LQR House	$1.57 million	-$25.52 million	-0.06
LQR House Competitors	$36.17 billion	$846.26 million	16.14

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

Profitability

This table compares LQR House and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LQR House	-1,588.72%	-14.06%	-10.42%
LQR House Competitors	-25.86%	3.87%	2.96%

Volatility and Risk

LQR House has a beta of 2.82, meaning that its stock price is 182% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LQR House’s rivals have a beta of 0.44, meaning that their average stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for LQR House and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LQR House	1	0	0	0	1.00
LQR House Competitors	2242	8272	10045	459	2.41

As a group, “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” companies have a potential upside of 55.84%. Given LQR House’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LQR House has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

45.0% of shares of all “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” companies are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of LQR House shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of shares of all “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” companies are owned 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.

Summary

LQR House rivals beat LQR House on 12 of the 13 factors compared.

LQR House Company Profile

LQR House, Inc. provides digital marketing and brand development for alcoholic beverage space. It intends to integrate the supply, sales, and marketing facets of the alcoholic beverage space into one easy to use platform and become the one-stop-shop for everything related to alcohol. The company was founded on January 11, 2021 and is headquartered in Miami Beach, FL.