Financial Review: Murano Global Investments (NASDAQ:MRNO) & GreenTree Hospitality Group (NYSE:GHG)

GreenTree Hospitality Group (NYSE:GHG) and Murano Global Investments (NASDAQ:MRNO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares GreenTree Hospitality Group and Murano Global Investments’ top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GreenTree Hospitality Group	$1.60 billion	0.15	$37.93 million	$0.42	5.79
Murano Global Investments	$350.27 million	0.26	-$8.71 million	N/A	N/A

GreenTree Hospitality Group has higher revenue and earnings than Murano Global Investments.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for GreenTree Hospitality Group and Murano Global Investments, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GreenTree Hospitality Group	0	1	0	0	2.00
Murano Global Investments	0	0	0	0	N/A

GreenTree Hospitality Group currently has a consensus target price of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 64.61%. Given GreenTree Hospitality Group’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe GreenTree Hospitality Group is more favorable than Murano Global Investments.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

8.1% of GreenTree Hospitality Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.8% of Murano Global Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 88.7% of GreenTree Hospitality Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 71.2% of Murano Global Investments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

GreenTree Hospitality Group has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Murano Global Investments has a beta of 0.11, suggesting that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares GreenTree Hospitality Group and Murano Global Investments’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GreenTree Hospitality Group	19.47%	21.03%	5.99%
Murano Global Investments	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

GreenTree Hospitality Group beats Murano Global Investments on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About GreenTree Hospitality Group

GreenTree Hospitality Group Ltd., through its subsidiaries, develops leased-and-operated, and franchised-and-managed hotels under the GreenTree Inns brand in the People's Republic of China. It also engages in investment holding activities; and provision of information technology services. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.

About Murano Global Investments

HCM Acquisition Corp is a blank check company. It intends to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or related business combination with one or more businesses. HCM Acquisition Corp is based in Stamford, Connecticut.