Comparing Green Thumb Industries (OTC:GTBIF) & Scheid Vineyards (OTCMKTS:SVIN)

Green Thumb Industries (OTC:GTBIF) and Scheid Vineyards (OTCMKTS:SVIN) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Green Thumb Industries and Scheid Vineyards, 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
Scheid Vineyards	0	0	0	0	0.00

Insider and Institutional Ownership

0.1% of Green Thumb Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Green Thumb Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.6% of Scheid Vineyards shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Green Thumb Industries and Scheid Vineyards”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Green Thumb Industries	$1.05 billion	1.01	$36.27 million	$0.30	16.77
Scheid Vineyards	$68.03 million	0.07	-$20.65 million	($27.98)	-0.19

Green Thumb Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Scheid Vineyards. Scheid Vineyards is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Green Thumb Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Green Thumb Industries has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scheid Vineyards has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Green Thumb Industries and Scheid Vineyards’ 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%
Scheid Vineyards	-43.54%	N/A	N/A

Summary

Green Thumb Industries beats Scheid Vineyards on 13 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Scheid Vineyards

Scheid Vineyards Inc. manufactures and sells wine in the United States. The company operates vineyards in Monterey and San Benito counties of California. It offers red, white, reserve, dessert wines, as well as accessories, such as wine glass. The company was incorporated in 1971 and is based in Salinas, California.