Comparing Bed Bath & Beyond (NYSE:BBBY) and NextPlat (NASDAQ:NXPL)

Bed Bath & Beyond (NYSE:BBBY) and NextPlat (NASDAQ:NXPL) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Bed Bath & Beyond and NextPlat’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bed Bath & Beyond	-13.50%	-57.26%	-23.83%
NextPlat	-14.58%	-34.22%	-25.12%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations for Bed Bath & Beyond and NextPlat, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bed Bath & Beyond	1	3	2	0	2.17
NextPlat	1	0	0	0	1.00

Bed Bath & Beyond presently has a consensus target price of $10.20, suggesting a potential upside of 66.31%. Given Bed Bath & Beyond’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Bed Bath & Beyond is more favorable than NextPlat.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

76.3% of Bed Bath & Beyond shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of NextPlat shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Bed Bath & Beyond shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.6% of NextPlat shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Bed Bath & Beyond and NextPlat”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bed Bath & Beyond	$1.39 billion	0.30	-$258.80 million	($2.81)	-2.18
NextPlat	$65.48 million	0.27	-$14.02 million	($0.30)	-2.22

NextPlat has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bed Bath & Beyond. NextPlat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bed Bath & Beyond, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Bed Bath & Beyond has a beta of 2.99, meaning that its share price is 199% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextPlat has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Bed Bath & Beyond beats NextPlat on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bed Bath & Beyond

Beyond, Inc. operates as an online retailer of furniture and home furnishings products in the United States and Canada. The company offers furniture, bedding and bath, patio and outdoor gear, area rugs, tabletop and cookware, décor, storage and organization, small appliances, home improvement, and other products under the Bed Bath & Beyond brand. The company provides its products and services through its e-commerce platform accessible through its mobile application, which includes bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, and overstockgovernment.com. It also offers businesses advertising products or services on its website; Marketplace, a service that allows its partners to sell their products through third party sites; product sales to international customers using third party logistics providers; and Supplier Oasis, a singular integration point that enables partners to manage their products, inventory, and sales channels, as well as access multi-channel fulfillment services through its distribution network. The company was formerly known as Overstock.com, Inc. and changed its name to Beyond, Inc. in November 2023. Beyond, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Midvale, Utah.

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.