Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) versus LuxExperience B.V. (NYSE:LUXE) Financial Analysis

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Haverty Furniture Companies and LuxExperience B.V., as reported by MarketBeat.

	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 33.56%. 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.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Haverty Furniture Companies	$758.99 million	0.56	$19.73 million	$1.36	20.14
LuxExperience B.V.	$1.37 billion	0.46	$620.57 million	$4.09	1.78

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.

Volatility and Risk

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

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%

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 company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of LuxExperience B.V. shares are owned 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.

Summary

LuxExperience B.V. beats Haverty Furniture Companies on 9 of the 14 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.