Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) versus Outdoor (NASDAQ:POWW) Head-To-Head Contrast

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

26.4% of Outdoor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 28.1% of Outdoor shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Outdoor and Haverty Furniture Companies, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

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

Outdoor currently has a consensus price target of $2.62, indicating a potential upside of 14.63%. Given Outdoor’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Outdoor is more favorable than Haverty Furniture Companies.

Profitability

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

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

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Outdoor	$51.12 million	5.20	-$3.54 million	$0.03	76.33
Haverty Furniture Companies	$758.99 million	0.57	$19.73 million	$1.36	20.53

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.

Volatility and Risk

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

Summary

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

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.

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.