Financial Review: Holiday Island (HIHI) and Its Peers

Holiday Island (OTCMKTS:HIHI) is one of 192 publicly-traded companies in the “Business services, not elsewhere classified” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Holiday Island to similar companies based on the strength of its profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.

Volatility and Risk

Holiday Island has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Holiday Island’s competitors have a beta of 1.47, meaning that their average share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

57.6% of shares of all “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies are held by institutional investors. 15.2% of Holiday Island shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.7% of shares of all “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies 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.

Profitability

This table compares Holiday Island and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Holiday Island	N/A	N/A	N/A
Holiday Island Competitors	-15.36%	-156.16%	-5.02%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Holiday Island and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Holiday Island	0	0	0	0	N/A
Holiday Island Competitors	907	5925	12175	317	2.62

As a group, “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies have a potential upside of 9.46%. Given Holiday Island’s competitors higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Holiday Island has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Holiday Island and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Holiday Island	N/A	N/A	-0.29
Holiday Island Competitors	$25.16 billion	$437.30 million	-3.37

Holiday Island’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Holiday Island. Holiday Island 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

Holiday Island competitors beat Holiday Island on 5 of the 9 factors compared.

Holiday Island Company Profile

Holiday Island Holdings, Inc. primarily engages in land development activities. It acquires, develops, manages, and sells income producing commercial and residential real estate properties located in Holiday Island, Arkansas. The company was formerly known as VillageEDOCS, Inc. and changed its name to Holiday Island Holdings, Inc. in February 2014. Holiday Island Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Holiday Island, Arkansas.