Contrasting NextPlat (NXPL) and Its Competitors

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 competitors? We will compare NextPlat to similar businesses based on the strength of its dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Risk & Volatility

NextPlat has a beta of 1.95, indicating that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextPlat’s competitors have a beta of 0.44, indicating that their average stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for NextPlat and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NextPlat	1	1	1	0	2.00
NextPlat Competitors	2240	8261	10030	459	2.41

NextPlat presently has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.64%. As a group, “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” companies have a potential upside of 58.84%. Given NextPlat’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NextPlat has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares NextPlat and its competitors’ 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	-25.91%	3.42%	2.87%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares NextPlat and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NextPlat	$54.32 million	-$10.46 million	-2.21
NextPlat Competitors	$34.75 billion	$846.26 million	15.89

NextPlat’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than NextPlat. NextPlat 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.

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 company insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of shares of all “Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

NextPlat competitors 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.