Legacy Housing (NASDAQ:LEGH – Get Free Report) and BOXABL (NASDAQ:BXBL – Get Free Report) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
89.3% of Legacy Housing shares are held by institutional investors. 30.1% of Legacy Housing shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Legacy Housing and BOXABL’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Legacy Housing | 26.01% | 8.08% | 7.44% |
| BOXABL | N/A | 597.61% | 1.69% |
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Legacy Housing | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| BOXABL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Legacy Housing presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential downside of 22.96%. Given Legacy Housing’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Legacy Housing is more favorable than BOXABL.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Legacy Housing and BOXABL”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Legacy Housing | $164.57 million | 3.94 | $41.81 million | $1.78 | 15.31 |
| BOXABL | $2.95 million | 365.48 | $1.43 million | $0.01 | 446.00 |
Legacy Housing has higher revenue and earnings than BOXABL. Legacy Housing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BOXABL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk & Volatility
Legacy Housing has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BOXABL has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Legacy Housing beats BOXABL on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Legacy Housing
Legacy Housing Corporation engages in the building, sale, and financing of manufactured homes and tiny houses primarily in the southern United States. It manufactures and provides for the transport of mobile homes, including 1 to 5 bedrooms with 1 to 3 1/2 bathrooms; and provides wholesale financing to dealers and mobile home parks, as well as retail financing to consumers. The company also offers inventory financing for its independent retailers; consumer financing for its products; and financing to manufactured housing community owners that buy or lease its products for use in their rental housing communities. In addition, it involved in financing and developing new manufactured home communities. The company markets its homes under the Legacy brand through a network of independent retailers and company-owned stores; and directly to manufactured home communities. Legacy Housing Corporation was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Bedford, Texas.
About BOXABL
FG Merger II Corp. is a blank check company. It formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. FG Merger II Corp. is based in ITASCA.
Receive News & Ratings for Legacy Housing Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Legacy Housing and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.
