Growlife (OTCMKTS:PHOT) vs. Advantage Solutions (NASDAQ:ADV) Head-To-Head Analysis

Advantage Solutions (NASDAQ:ADV) and Growlife (OTCMKTS:PHOT) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, dividends and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Advantage Solutions and Growlife, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Advantage Solutions	1	1	1	0	2.00
Growlife	0	0	0	0	0.00

Advantage Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 244.83%. Given Advantage Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Advantage Solutions is more favorable than Growlife.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Advantage Solutions and Growlife”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Advantage Solutions	$3.57 billion	0.05	-$326.96 million	($0.75)	-0.77
Growlife	N/A	N/A	N/A	($0.16)	N/A

Growlife has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Advantage Solutions. Advantage Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Growlife, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

49.8% of Advantage Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.9% of Advantage Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Growlife shares are owned 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.

Profitability

This table compares Advantage Solutions and Growlife’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Advantage Solutions	-6.97%	-34.40%	-8.04%
Growlife	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Advantage Solutions beats Growlife on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Advantage Solutions

Advantage Solutions Inc. provides business solutions to consumer goods manufacturers and retailers in North America and internationally. It operates in two segments, Sales and Marketing. The Sales segment offers brand-centric services, such as headquarter relationship management; analytics, insights, and intelligence; and brand-centric merchandising services. This segment also provides retailer-centric services comprising retailer-centric merchandising and in-store media services. The Marketing segment offers brand-centric services, including shopper and consumer marketing, and brand experiential services; retailer-centric services, such as retail experiential and private label services; and digital marketing, and digital media and advertising services. The company was formerly known as Karman Holding Corp. and changed its name to Advantage Solutions Inc. in March 2016. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

About Growlife

GrowLife, Inc. focuses on the functional mushroom business. It processes, stores, markets, distributes, and sells fresh and dried mushroom products. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.