Home Product Center Public (HPCRF) versus Its Peers Head to Head Review

Dividends

Home Product Center Public pays an annual dividend of $0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.3%. Home Product Center Public pays out 10.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Specialty Retail” companies pay a dividend yield of 2.0% and pay out 35.7% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Home Product Center Public is clearly a better dividend stock than its peers, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

3.4% of Home Product Center Public shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.0% of shares of all “Specialty Retail” companies are held by institutional investors. 21.0% of shares of all “Specialty Retail” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Home Product Center Public and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Home Product Center Public	N/A	N/A	0.73
Home Product Center Public Competitors	$7.05 billion	$390.09 million	16.51

Home Product Center Public’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Home Product Center Public. Home Product Center Public is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Home Product Center Public and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Home Product Center Public	N/A	N/A	N/A
Home Product Center Public Competitors	-3.51%	-30.14%	3.19%

Summary

Home Product Center Public peers beat Home Product Center Public on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

About Home Product Center Public

Home Product Center Public Company Limited operates as a home improvement retailer in Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The company trades in various goods and materials for construction, addition, refurbishment, renovation, and improvement of buildings, houses, and residences; and offers related services to retail businesses. It also provides installation, maintenance, warehousing management and distribution, and other services; and utilities services. In addition, the company rents space; and engages in the wholesaling of construction and home improvement products. Home Product Center Public Company Limited was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Nonthaburi, Thailand.