Healthy Choice Wellness Corp. (HOST) vs Laird Superfood, Inc. (LSF)

Healthy Choice Wellness Corp. and Laird Superfood, Inc. are both Packaged Foods companies. Healthy Choice Wellness Corp. is the larger, with a market value of $70.5M against $30.3M — 2.3× the size. Laird Superfood, Inc. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 73.3% against −7.33%. Laird Superfood, Inc. has the higher net margin (−4.62% vs −13.3%) and the higher return on invested capital (−4.90% vs −52.8%). Across the 17 metrics below, Laird Superfood, Inc. leads on 11 and Healthy Choice Wellness Corp. on 6.

Valuation

Metric HOST LSF Packaged Foods median
P/E n/m n/m 13.41
P/S 0.02 0.35 0.62
P/B 0.42 2.61 1.47
Price to free cash flow n/m n/m 8.73
EV/EBITDA n/m n/m 8.26
EV/Sales 0.07 0.07 0.91
Earnings yield (772.92%) (13.32%) 0.68%
Free cash flow yield (181.83%) (4.24%) 5.21%

Profitability

Metric HOST LSF Packaged Foods median
Gross margin 38.64% 32.41% 27.54%
Operating margin (8.67%) (9.43%) 0.00%
Net margin (13.26%) (4.62%) 0.00%
Free cash flow margin (3.69%) (1.47%) 2.37%
Return on equity (207.80%) (30.84%) 0.00%
Return on assets (30.02%) (4.53%) 0.00%
Return on invested capital (52.80%) (4.90%) 0.00%

Growth

Metric HOST LSF Packaged Foods median
Revenue growth (TTM) (7.33%) 73.26% 5.69%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) 50.00% (72.22%) 4.57%
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR — 14.11% 3.81%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR — 0.00% 0.00%

Health

Metric HOST LSF Packaged Foods median
Debt to equity 1.38 0.00 0.24
Current ratio 0.51 3.05 1.68
Net debt to EBITDA 1.49 2.13 0.84

Dividend

Metric HOST LSF Packaged Foods median
Dividend yield — — 4.06%
Payout ratio — — 0.57

Size

Metric HOST LSF Packaged Foods median
Market cap 70.50m 30.34m 263.30m

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