Yunhong Green CTI (NASDAQ:YHGJ) & Hooker Furnishings (NASDAQ:HOFT) Financial Analysis

Hooker Furnishings (NASDAQ:HOFT) and Yunhong Green CTI (NASDAQ:YHGJ) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.

Profitability

This table compares Hooker Furnishings and Yunhong Green CTI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hooker Furnishings	-6.62%	4.32%	3.20%
Yunhong Green CTI	-14.43%	-38.81%	-13.25%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

73.6% of Hooker Furnishings shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.0% of Yunhong Green CTI shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Hooker Furnishings shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.8% of Yunhong Green CTI shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

Hooker Furnishings has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yunhong Green CTI has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Hooker Furnishings and Yunhong Green CTI, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hooker Furnishings	1	1	0	0	1.50
Yunhong Green CTI	1	0	0	0	1.00

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Hooker Furnishings and Yunhong Green CTI”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hooker Furnishings	$278.14 million	0.56	-$26.97 million	($1.69)	-8.60
Yunhong Green CTI	$19.50 million	0.45	-$2.53 million	($1.11)	-3.06

Yunhong Green CTI has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hooker Furnishings. Hooker Furnishings is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yunhong Green CTI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Hooker Furnishings beats Yunhong Green CTI on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Hooker Furnishings

Hooker Furnishings Corporation designs, manufactures, imports, and markets residential household, hospitality, and contract furniture. It operates in three segments: Hooker Branded, Home Meridian, and Domestic Upholstery. The Hooker Branded segment offers design categories, including home entertainment, home office, accent, dining, and bedroom furniture under the Hooker Furniture brand; and imported upholstered furniture under the Hooker Upholstery brand. The Home Meridian segment provides home furnishings under the Accentrics Home brand; a range of bedroom, dining room, accent, display cabinet, home office, and youth furnishings under the Pulaski Furniture and Samuel Lawrence Furniture brands; and imported leather motion upholstery under the Prime Resources International brand. This segment also designs and supplies hotel furnishings for four and five-star hotels under the Samuel Lawrence Hospitality brand name. The Domestic Upholstery segment offers motion and stationary leather furniture under the Bradington-Young brand; chairs, sofas, sectionals, recliners, and a variety of accent upholstery pieces under the HF Custom brand; and upholstered furniture, such as private label sectionals, modulars, sofas, chairs, ottomans, benches, beds, and dining chairs for lifestyle specialty retailers under the Shenandoah Furniture brand. This segment also designs and manufactures outdoor furniture under the Sunset West brand. The company supplies upholstered seating and casegoods to upscale senior living and assisted living facilities through designers, design firms, industry dealers, and distributors under the H Contract brand; and interior designer products under the Lifestyle Brands name; and lighting, accessories, and home décor products under the BOBO Intriguing Objects brand. It sells home furnishing products through retailers, such as independent furniture stores, department stores, mass merchants, national chains, catalog merchants, interior designers, and e-commerce retailers primarily in North America. Hooker Furnishings Corporation was incorporated in 1924 and is headquartered in Martinsville, Virginia.

About Yunhong Green CTI

Yunhong Green CTI Ltd. develops, produces, distributes, and sells consumer products in the United States and internationally. It offers novelty products, including foil balloons; latex balloons under the Partyloons name; and toy balloon products, which include punch balls, water bombs, and balloons twisted into shapes, as well as other inflatable toy items. The company also offers packaging films and custom film products for food, and other commercial and packaging applications; and container products, as well as assembles and sells Candy Blossom product line. It primarily serves various retail outlets, including general merchandise stores, discount and drugstore chains, grocery chains, card and gift shops, party goods stores, and florists and balloon decorators. The company sells its products directly, as well as through a network of distributors and wholesalers, retail chains, and independent sales representatives. The company was formerly known as Yunhong CTI Ltd. and changed its name to Yunhong Green CTI Ltd. in August 2023. Yunhong Green CTI Ltd. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Lake Barrington, Illinois.