NextPlat (NXPL) & Its Competitors Head to Head Contrast

NextPlat (NASDAQ:NXPL) is one of 149 public companies in the “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare NextPlat to similar businesses based on the strength of its profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for NextPlat and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NextPlat	1	1	1	0	2.00
NextPlat Competitors	2235	8248	10024	455	2.41

NextPlat currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.41%. As a group, “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” companies have a potential upside of 61.74%. Given NextPlat’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe NextPlat has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares NextPlat and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NextPlat	-20.38%	-54.66%	-34.82%
NextPlat Competitors	-25.67%	1.91%	2.62%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NextPlat and its rivals revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NextPlat	$48.89 million	-$10.46 million	-2.32
NextPlat Competitors	$35.04 billion	$846.03 million	15.83

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

Risk & Volatility

NextPlat has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextPlat’s rivals have a beta of 0.43, meaning that their average share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

1.3% of NextPlat shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.0% of shares of all “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” companies are held by institutional investors. 46.1% of NextPlat 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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

NextPlat rivals beat NextPlat on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

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.