Critical Review: NextPlat (NASDAQ:NXPL) vs. Ahold (OTCMKTS:ADRNY)

NextPlat (NASDAQ:NXPL) and Ahold (OTCMKTS:ADRNY) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Volatility & Risk

NextPlat has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ahold has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NextPlat and Ahold”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NextPlat	$54.32 million	0.46	-$10.46 million	($3.67)	-2.54
Ahold	$104.46 billion	0.30	$2.56 billion	€2.95	12.17

Ahold has higher revenue and earnings than NextPlat. NextPlat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ahold, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

1.3% of NextPlat shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Ahold shares are owned by institutional investors. 46.1% of NextPlat shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for NextPlat and Ahold, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NextPlat	1	1	1	0	2.00
Ahold	0	4	0	2	2.67

NextPlat presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.15%. Given NextPlat’s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe NextPlat is more favorable than Ahold.

Profitability

This table compares NextPlat and Ahold’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NextPlat	-20.38%	-54.66%	-34.82%
Ahold	2.45%	16.70%	4.84%

Summary

Ahold beats NextPlat on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NextPlat

NextPlat Corp operates as a healthcare and e-commerce company in Europe, North America, South America, the Asia and Pacific, and Africa. The company operates full-service retail specialty services pharmacies that provides prescription pharmaceuticals prescription pharmaceuticals, third-party administration, risk and data management services, compounded medications, tele-pharmacy services, anti-retroviral medications, medication therapy management, contracted pharmacy services, and health practice risk management to healthcare organizations and providers, as well as supplies prescription medications to long-term care facilities. It also offers COVID-19 related diagnostics and vaccinations, and medication adherence packaging; and value-added services, such as prior authorization assistance, same-day home-medication delivery, on site provider consultation services, primary care reporting and analytics, and customized packaging solutions, as well as acquires and leases an e-commerce platform to collaborate with businesses to optimize their ability to sell their goods online. In addition, it operates e-commerce websites, as well as third-party e-commerce storefronts that provides mobile satellite services solutions for satellite-enabled voice, data, personnel and asset tracking, machine-to-machine, and internet of things connectivity services; voice, data communications, internet of things (IoT), and machine-to-machine services; tracking and monitoring solutions and services; satellite communications products; and GPS enabled emergency locator distress beacons. Further, it offers satellite tracking devices used to monitor the location, movements, and history of anything that moves; SolarTrack, a compact, lightweight, IoT tracking device powered by the sun; and GTCTrack, a subscription-based mapping and tracking portal. The company was formerly known as Orbsat Corp. and changed its name to NextPlat Corp in January 2022. NextPlat Corp is based in Coconut Grove, Florida.

About Ahold

Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. operates retail food stores and e-commerce in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company's stores offer produce, dairy, meat, deli, bakery, seafood, and frozen products; grocery, beer, and wine; floral, pet food, health and beauty care, kitchen and cookware, gardening tools, general merchandise articles, electronics, newspapers and magazines, tobacco, etc.; gasoline; and pharmacy products. It operates its supermarkets, convenience stores, and online stores under the Food Lion, Stop & Shop, The GIANT Company, Hannaford, Giant Food, FreshDirect, Albert Heijn, bol.com, Etos, Gall & Gall, Delhaize, Albert, Alfa Beta Vassilopoulos, Mega Image, Delhaize Serbia, Peapod Digital labs, and Retail Business Service brands. The company was formerly known as Koninklijke Ahold N.V. and changed its name to Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. in July 2016. Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Zaandam, the Netherlands.