Head-To-Head Analysis: LQR House (YHC) & Its Peers

LQR House (NASDAQ:YHC) is one of 149 publicly-traded companies in the “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare LQR House to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.

Volatility & Risk

LQR House has a beta of 2.82, indicating that its stock price is 182% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LQR House’s competitors have a beta of 0.44, indicating that their average stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

45.0% of shares of all “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” companies are held by institutional investors. 9.4% of LQR House shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of shares of all “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for LQR House and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LQR House	1	0	0	0	1.00
LQR House Competitors	2243	8276	10067	459	2.42

As a group, “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” companies have a potential upside of 57.44%. Given LQR House’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LQR House has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares LQR House and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
LQR House	$1.57 million	-$25.52 million	-0.07
LQR House Competitors	$34.73 billion	$846.26 million	17.22

LQR House’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than LQR House. LQR House is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares LQR House and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LQR House	-1,588.72%	-14.06%	-10.42%
LQR House Competitors	-25.86%	3.87%	2.96%

Summary

LQR House competitors beat LQR House on 12 of the 13 factors compared.

LQR House Company Profile

LQR House, Inc. provides digital marketing and brand development for alcoholic beverage space. It intends to integrate the supply, sales, and marketing facets of the alcoholic beverage space into one easy to use platform and become the one-stop-shop for everything related to alcohol. The company was founded on January 11, 2021 and is headquartered in Miami Beach, FL.