Contrasting Luvu Brands (OTCMKTS:LUVU) and Pigeon (OTCMKTS:PGENY)

Risk and Volatility

Luvu Brands has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pigeon has a beta of 0.06, indicating that its stock price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Luvu Brands and Pigeon”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Luvu Brands	$24.69 million	0.09	-$450,000.00	($0.02)	-1.45
Pigeon	$730.24 million	1.70	$57.43 million	$0.11	23.64

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Luvu Brands	-5.42%	-58.93%	-14.04%
Pigeon	7.87%	10.93%	8.42%

Summary

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

About Luvu Brands

Luvu Brands, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets various consumer lifestyle products worldwide. The company offers sensuality and intimacy products under the Liberator brand; and bed therapy products, which assistive in relieving medical conditions associated with acid reflux, surgery recovery, and chronic pain under the Avana brand. It also provides daybeds, sofas, and beanbags made from virgin and re-purposed polyurethane foam under the Jaxx brand. In addition, the company is involved in the purchase and resale of products to e-merchants, retailers, and e-commerce sites, as well as provision of contract manufacturing and fulfillment services. It markets its products through various websites comprising liberator.com, jaxxliving.com, and avanacomfort.com, as well as through distributors, retailers, and e-tailers across various channels of adult, mass market, drug, and specialty accounts. The company was formerly known as Liberator, Inc. and changed its name to Luvu Brands, Inc. in November 2015. Luvu Brands, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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.