Financial Survey: Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) and SuperX AI Technology (NASDAQ:SUPX)

Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) and SuperX AI Technology (NASDAQ:SUPX) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.

Volatility & Risk

Haverty Furniture Companies has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SuperX AI Technology has a beta of -0.73, suggesting that its share price is 173% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Haverty Furniture Companies and SuperX AI Technology”s top-line 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	0.50	$19.73 million	$1.20	19.77
SuperX AI Technology	$3.60 million	73.09	-$21.21 million	N/A	N/A

Haverty Furniture Companies has higher revenue and earnings than SuperX AI Technology.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.4% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Haverty Furniture Companies and SuperX AI Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Haverty Furniture Companies	2.64%	6.60%	3.12%
SuperX AI Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Haverty Furniture Companies and SuperX AI Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Haverty Furniture Companies	1	1	0	0	1.50
SuperX AI Technology	1	0	0	0	1.00

Summary

Haverty Furniture Companies beats SuperX AI Technology on 9 of the 10 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 SuperX AI Technology

Supertex, Inc. is a producer of high voltage analog and mixed signal semiconductor components. The Company designs, develops, manufactures, and markets integrated circuits (ICs), utilizing high voltage DMOS, HVCMOS and HVBiCMOS analog and mixed signal technologies. These ICs are used in the medical ultrasound imaging, light emitting diodes (LED) backlighting for monitors and liquid-crystal display (LCD) television (TVs), LED general lighting, telecommunications, printer, flat panel display, industrial and consumer product industries. It markets and sells its products through direct sales personnel, independent sales representatives and distributors in the United States and abroad, to original equipment manufacturers (OEM’s) of electronic products. The Company operates in one business segment consisting of the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of high voltage analog and mixed signal integrated circuits.