Critical Contrast: Charlie’s (OTCMKTS:CHUC) vs. True Drinks (OTCMKTS:TRUU)

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares True Drinks and Charlie’s”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
True Drinks	$1.95 million	255.01	-$3.88 million	$0.01	10.00
Charlie’s	$16.25 million	1.58	-$2.09 million	N/A	N/A

Charlie’s has higher revenue and earnings than True Drinks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

7.8% of Charlie’s shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.2% of True Drinks shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of Charlie’s shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares True Drinks and Charlie’s’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
True Drinks	-255.80%	N/A	-165.86%
Charlie’s	-24.96%	N/A	-61.40%

Risk & Volatility

True Drinks has a beta of 10.9, suggesting that its stock price is 990% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Charlie’s has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Charlie’s beats True Drinks on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About True Drinks

True Drinks Holdings, Inc. markets and distributes nutritional supplement drinks. The company sells Bazi All Natural Energy, a liquid nutritional supplement drink through drinkbazi.com. It also formulates products containing CBD; and produces and distributes vapor products in approximately 90 countries. The company was formerly known as True Drinks, Inc. and changed its name to True Drinks Holdings, Inc. in October 2012. True Drinks Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

About Charlie’s

Charlie's Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, formulates, markets, and distributes non-combustible nicotine-related, alternative alkaloid vapor, and hemp-derived vapor and edible products. It sells its products through distributors, specialty retailers, and third-party online resellers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. Charlie's Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California.