Comparing Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) & LuxExperience B.V. (NYSE:LUXE)

LuxExperience B.V. (NYSE:LUXE) and Haverty Furniture Companies (NYSE:HVT) 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 earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Profitability

This table compares LuxExperience B.V. and Haverty Furniture Companies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LuxExperience B.V.	17.93%	35.63%	21.07%
Haverty Furniture Companies	2.93%	7.15%	3.34%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for LuxExperience B.V. and Haverty Furniture Companies, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LuxExperience B.V.	1	3	2	0	2.17
Haverty Furniture Companies	0	2	0	0	2.00

LuxExperience B.V. presently has a consensus price target of $9.75, suggesting a potential upside of 26.79%. Given LuxExperience B.V.’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe LuxExperience B.V. is more favorable than Haverty Furniture Companies.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

10.1% of LuxExperience B.V. shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of LuxExperience B.V. shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Haverty Furniture Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
LuxExperience B.V.	$2.43 billion	0.27	$620.57 million	$4.09	1.88
Haverty Furniture Companies	$758.99 million	0.59	$19.73 million	$1.36	20.97

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.

Risk and Volatility

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

Dividends

LuxExperience B.V. pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Haverty Furniture Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. LuxExperience B.V. pays out 8.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Haverty Furniture Companies pays out 97.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Haverty Furniture Companies has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Haverty Furniture Companies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Summary

LuxExperience B.V. beats Haverty Furniture Companies on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.