Champion Homes (NYSE:SKY – Get Free Report) and Hamilton Beach Brands (NYSE:HBB – Get Free Report) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
Risk and Volatility
Champion Homes has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hamilton Beach Brands has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Champion Homes and Hamilton Beach Brands’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Champion Homes | 7.16% | 12.52% | 9.29% |
| Hamilton Beach Brands | 9.41% | 30.70% | 14.62% |
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Champion Homes | $2.66 billion | 1.72 | $206.90 million | $3.43 | 24.55 |
| Hamilton Beach Brands | $606.85 million | 0.83 | $26.45 million | $4.25 | 8.82 |
Champion Homes has higher revenue and earnings than Hamilton Beach Brands. Hamilton Beach Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Champion Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
50.5% of Hamilton Beach Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Champion Homes shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 39.0% of Hamilton Beach Brands shares are held by 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.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Champion Homes and Hamilton Beach Brands, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Champion Homes | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2.78 |
| Hamilton Beach Brands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
Champion Homes currently has a consensus target price of $104.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.52%. Given Champion Homes’ higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Champion Homes is more favorable than Hamilton Beach Brands.
Summary
Champion Homes beats Hamilton Beach Brands on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Champion Homes
Skyline Champion Corporation produces and sells factory-built housing in North America. The company offers manufactured and modular homes, park models RVs, accessory dwelling units, and modular buildings for the multi-family and hospitality sectors. It builds homes under the Skyline Homes, Champion Home Builders, Genesis Homes, Athens Park Models, Dutch Housing, Atlantic Homes, Excel Homes, Homes of Merit, New Era, Redman Homes, ScotBilt Homes, Shore Park, Silvercrest, and Titan Homes brands in the United States; and Moduline and SRI Homes brand names in western Canada. The company also provides construction services to install and set-up factory-built homes; operates a factory-direct manufactured home retail business under the Titan Factory Direct and Champion Homes Center brand names with 31 sales centers in the United States; and engages in the transportation of manufactured homes and recreational vehicles. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan.
About Hamilton Beach Brands
Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, markets, and distributes small electric household and specialty housewares appliances in the United States and internationally. It offers air fryers, blenders, coffee makers, food processors, indoor electric grills, irons, juicers, mixers, slow cookers, toasters, and toaster ovens. The company also provides consumer products under the Hamilton Beach and Proctor Silex brands; products under the Hamilton Beach Professional in the premium market; farm-to-table and field-to-table food processing equipment under the Weston brand; countertop appliances under the Wolf Gourmet brand; garment care products under the CHI brand; cocktail delivery system under the Bartesian brand; air purifiers under the Clorox and TrueAir brands; and water filtration systems under the Brita brand. In addition, it offers injection care management system under the Hamilton Beach Health brand; and commercial products under the Hamilton Beach Commercial and the Proctor Silex Commercial brands, as well as supplies private label products. The company sells its products through a network of mass merchandisers, e-commerce retailers, national department stores, variety store and drug store chains, specialty home retailers, distributors, restaurants, fast food chains, bars, hotels, and other retail outlets. Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia.
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