Green Thumb Industries (GTBIF) versus Its Rivals Head-To-Head Contrast

Green Thumb Industries (OTC:GTBIF) is one of 43 publicly-traded companies in the “Agricultural production – crops” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Green Thumb Industries to similar businesses based on the strength of its valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and profitability.

Risk and Volatility

Green Thumb Industries has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Green Thumb Industries’ competitors have a beta of -19.62, suggesting that their average stock price is 2,062% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Green Thumb Industries and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Green Thumb Industries	5.68%	3.65%	2.52%
Green Thumb Industries Competitors	-98.15%	-2,439.03%	-14.56%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.1% of Green Thumb Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.7% of shares of all “Agricultural production – crops” companies are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Green Thumb Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of shares of all “Agricultural production – crops” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Green Thumb Industries and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Green Thumb Industries	0	0	0	3	4.00
Green Thumb Industries Competitors	309	253	603	34	2.30

As a group, “Agricultural production – crops” companies have a potential upside of 40.26%. Given Green Thumb Industries’ competitors higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Green Thumb Industries has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Green Thumb Industries and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Green Thumb Industries	$1.05 billion	$36.27 million	26.33
Green Thumb Industries Competitors	$1.22 billion	-$827,419.35	13.00

Green Thumb Industries’ competitors have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Green Thumb Industries. Green Thumb Industries is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Green Thumb Industries beats its competitors on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About Green Thumb Industries

Green Thumb Industries Inc. manufactures, distributes, markets, and sells of cannabis products for medical and adult-use in the United States. It operates through two segments, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods. The company offers cannabis flower; processed and packaged products, including pre-rolls, concentrates, vapes, capsules, tinctures, edibles, topicals, and other cannabis-related products under the &Shine, Beboe, Dogwalkers, Doctor Solomon’s, Good Green, incredibles, and RHYTHM brands. It distributes its products primarily to third-party retail customers and sells finished products directly to consumers in its own retail stores, as well as direct-to consumer delivery channel. Green Thumb Industries Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.