Grove Collaborative (NYSE:GROV – Get Free Report) and NextPlat (NASDAQ:NXPL – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Grove Collaborative and NextPlat, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Grove Collaborative | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| NextPlat | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
Grove Collaborative presently has a consensus target price of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 85.19%. NextPlat has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 32.53%. Given Grove Collaborative’s higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Grove Collaborative is more favorable than NextPlat.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Grove Collaborative and NextPlat”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Grove Collaborative | $158.94 million | 0.29 | -$11.72 million | ($0.19) | -5.68 |
| NextPlat | $48.89 million | 0.46 | -$10.46 million | ($3.67) | -2.26 |
NextPlat has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Grove Collaborative. Grove Collaborative is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NextPlat, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
91.6% of Grove Collaborative shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of NextPlat shares are held by institutional investors. 30.3% of Grove Collaborative shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 46.1% of NextPlat shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility & Risk
Grove Collaborative has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextPlat has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Grove Collaborative and NextPlat’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Grove Collaborative | -4.07% | N/A | -12.35% |
| NextPlat | -20.38% | -54.66% | -34.82% |
Summary
Grove Collaborative beats NextPlat on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Grove Collaborative
Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc. operates as a plastic neutral consumer products retailer in the United States. It offers household, personal care, beauty, and other consumer products through retail channels, third parties, direct-to-consumer platform, and mobile applications, as well as online store. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
About NextPlat
NextPlat Corp operates as a healthcare and e-commerce company in Europe, North America, South America, the Asia and Pacific, and Africa. The company operates full-service retail specialty services pharmacies that provides prescription pharmaceuticals prescription pharmaceuticals, third-party administration, risk and data management services, compounded medications, tele-pharmacy services, anti-retroviral medications, medication therapy management, contracted pharmacy services, and health practice risk management to healthcare organizations and providers, as well as supplies prescription medications to long-term care facilities. It also offers COVID-19 related diagnostics and vaccinations, and medication adherence packaging; and value-added services, such as prior authorization assistance, same-day home-medication delivery, on site provider consultation services, primary care reporting and analytics, and customized packaging solutions, as well as acquires and leases an e-commerce platform to collaborate with businesses to optimize their ability to sell their goods online. In addition, it operates e-commerce websites, as well as third-party e-commerce storefronts that provides mobile satellite services solutions for satellite-enabled voice, data, personnel and asset tracking, machine-to-machine, and internet of things connectivity services; voice, data communications, internet of things (IoT), and machine-to-machine services; tracking and monitoring solutions and services; satellite communications products; and GPS enabled emergency locator distress beacons. Further, it offers satellite tracking devices used to monitor the location, movements, and history of anything that moves; SolarTrack, a compact, lightweight, IoT tracking device powered by the sun; and GTCTrack, a subscription-based mapping and tracking portal. The company was formerly known as Orbsat Corp. and changed its name to NextPlat Corp in January 2022. NextPlat Corp is based in Coconut Grove, Florida.
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