Head to Head Analysis: Green Thumb Industries (GTBIF) vs. Its Competitors

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

Profitability

This table compares Green Thumb Industries and its peers’ 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	-100.93%	-2,555.93%	-15.78%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Green Thumb Industries and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Green Thumb Industries	0	0	0	3	4.00
Green Thumb Industries Competitors	307	251	603	34	2.30

As a group, “Agricultural production – crops” companies have a potential upside of 36.75%. Given Green Thumb Industries’ peers higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Green Thumb Industries has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Institutional and 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 company insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of shares of all “Agricultural production – crops” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Green Thumb Industries	$1.05 billion	$36.27 million	25.19
Green Thumb Industries Competitors	$1.19 billion	-$6.22 million	13.23

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

Volatility and Risk

Green Thumb Industries has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Green Thumb Industries’ peers have a beta of -24.36, suggesting that their average share price is 2,536% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

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

Green Thumb Industries Company Profile

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.