Financial Comparison: LuxExperience B.V. (NYSE:LUXE) and Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT)

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

Risk and Volatility

Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LuxExperience B.V. has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Haverty Furniture Companies and LuxExperience B.V.”s gross 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	0.59	$19.73 million	$1.36	20.97
LuxExperience B.V.	$2.43 billion	0.27	$620.57 million	$4.09	1.88

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

Dividends

Haverty Furniture Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. LuxExperience B.V. pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Haverty Furniture Companies pays out 97.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. LuxExperience B.V. pays out 8.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Haverty Furniture Companies has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Haverty Furniture Companies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.1% of LuxExperience B.V. shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.4% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of LuxExperience B.V. shares 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for Haverty Furniture Companies and LuxExperience B.V., as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Haverty Furniture Companies	0	2	0	0	2.00
LuxExperience B.V.	1	3	2	0	2.17

LuxExperience B.V. has a consensus target price of $9.75, indicating a potential upside of 26.79%. Given LuxExperience B.V.’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe LuxExperience B.V. is more favorable than Haverty Furniture Companies.

Profitability

This table compares Haverty Furniture Companies and LuxExperience B.V.’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%
LuxExperience B.V.	17.93%	35.63%	21.07%

Summary

LuxExperience B.V. beats Haverty Furniture Companies on 10 of the 17 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 LuxExperience B.V.

MYT Netherlands Parent B.V., through its subsidiary, Mytheresa Group GmbH, operates a luxury e-commerce platform for fashion consumers in Germany, the United States, the rest of Europe, and internationally. The company sells clothes, bags, shoes, accessories, and fine jewelry through online and retail stores. It serves high-income luxury consumers. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Munich, Germany.