Horizon Kinetics Holding's Competitiveness
A competitive positioning analysis and financial ratio benchmarking of Horizon Kinetics Holding (SLGD) against its publicly traded competitors: sales growth, net income, profitability, valuation and market share, plus each peer's market capitalization, revenue, income and employees. Free below: the top 5 peers. Subscriber access adds the full competitor list and CSV downloads.
Key Findings: Horizon Kinetics Holding vs Its Competitors
- TTM: Trailing 12-month revenue of 71M vs 264,430M combined for tracked competitors (0.0% combined share).
- Trending: Latest-quarter revenue run-rate is accelerating (+7.0% annualized vs trailing 12 months), vs holding steady (+1.6%) for its tracked peer group.
- Growth: Horizon Kinetics Holding generated -3.7% revenue growth year over year in Q2 2026, vs 4.5% for its tracked competitors combined.
- Profitability: Its -593.2% net margin compares with 15.9% for the peer group.
- Peer revenue share: Horizon Kinetics Holding accounted for 0.0% of combined revenue among its tracked peer group, up from 0.0% a year earlier.
- Peer differentiation: Revenue per employee of $0.88M compares with $0.61M for the peer group (1.4x).
Every figure above is sourced and cited in detail further down this page (Market Structure, Profitability & Cost Structure, Productivity vs Peers).
SLGD Sales vs. its Competitors, Q2 2026
Horizon Kinetics Holding reported revenue contraction of 3.66 % year on year in Q2 2026, below its competitors' combined revenue growth of 4.54 %.
With a net margin of -593.23 %, Horizon Kinetics Holding reported lower profitability than its competitors (15.86 %).
Horizon Kinetics Holding generated 0.03 % of the combined sales of its peer group, up from 0.03 % a year earlier.
Horizon Kinetics Holding vs. its Competitors, Q2 2026
Revenue growth, year on year
Net margin
Revenue run-rate vs trailing 12 months
TTM net margin
TTM = trailing twelve months. Run-rate annualizes the latest quarter (×4) and compares it to TTM. In millions of $. High-Confidence Competitors are named as a competitor directly in an SEC filing; Similar-Size Competitors are the closest peers by market-cap rank within the same industry; Similar Growth & Profitability Competitors are the closest peers by combined revenue growth, operating margin and ROIC, all independent of the competitor list.
TTM revenue, latest-quarter run-rate and net income/margin benchmarked across Horizon Kinetics Holding and its 4 competitor groupings. Available under Commercial License.
| Entity | TTM Revenue | Rev Run-rate vs TTM |
|---|---|---|
| Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation | $12,345M | +12.3% · Accelerating |
| Competitors combined | $12,345M | +12.3% · Accelerating |
| High-Confidence Competitors (1) | $12,345M | +12.3% · Accelerating |
| Similar Growth & Profitability (4) | $12,345M | +12.3% · Accelerating |
TTM revenue, run-rate and net margin benchmarking across Horizon Kinetics Holding's competitor groups requires a Commercial License.
For context: the Investment Services industry grew revenue -2.0% year over year, combined, vs -3.7% for Horizon Kinetics Holding. Horizon Kinetics Holding's share of combined industry revenue moved from 0.01% to 0.01%, a gain of 0.00 percentage points.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Competitor Quality Breadth
Share of each group, trailing 12 months: profitable (net margin > 0), expanding (revenue growth > 0), growing faster than the industry's own median, and financially distressed (Piotroski F-Score of 2 or below).
| Entity | Profitable | Expanding | Above Industry Growth | Distressed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Competitors combined (16) | ||||
| High-Confidence Competitors (3) | ||||
| Similar Growth & Profitability (8) | 87.50 % (7 of 8) | 62.50 % (5 of 8) | 12.50 % (1 of 8) | 42.90 % (3 of 7) |
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. Altman Z-Score is not shown here: it is not populated in the underlying data for any company. Percentages are of companies in each group that report the relevant metric, not of the full group size.
SLGD Stock Performance relative to its Competitors
SLGD Stock Performance relative to High-Confidence Competitors
SLGD Stock Performance relative to Similar Growth & Profitability Competitors
5 Best-Performing Tracked Competitors, Trailing 12 Months
| # | Competitor | TTM Share Price Return | vs U.S.A. 500 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sealed Air Corp | 282.9% | Outperformed |
| 2 | Johnson and Johnson | 282.9% | Outperformed |
| 3 | Church and Dwight Co Inc | 282.9% | Outperformed |
| 4 | Colgate palmolive Company | 282.9% | Outperformed |
| 5 | Ecolab Inc | 282.9% | Outperformed |
TTM share price return and U.S.A. 500 outperformance for Horizon Kinetics Holding's best-performing tracked competitors requires a Commercial License.
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Comment on Competition and Industry Peers
Publicly Traded Peers of Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation
Revenue and income for trailing 12 months, in millions of $, except employees| Company | Market Cap | Revenues |
|---|---|---|
| Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation | 19.75 | 71.17 |
| Johnson and Johnson | 663,585.20 | 97,929.00 |
| Procter and Gamble Co | 361,061.51 | 87,032.00 |
| Ecolab Inc | 79,080.91 | 16,995.90 |
| Colgate palmolive Company | 69,371.74 | 21,046.00 |
| Kimberly clark Corporation | 32,920.04 | 16,582.00 |
| SUBTOTAL | 1,254,348.12 | 334,721.64 |
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Sources: Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation's official press releases and regulatory filings; CSIMarket.com's market research; and the financial filings and press releases of the other companies cited.
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Horizon Kinetics Holding's Competitors Named by the Company
Competitive relationships identified from SEC filings and corroborating sources, each with a basis and confidence.| Competitor | Basis | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chemomab Therapeutics Ltd | Named by the company | 85% |
| Church & Dwight | Named by the company | 85% |
| Virpax Pharmaceuticals Inc | Named by the company | 85% |
Filing basis, confidence, active dates and source counts for Horizon Kinetics Holding's named competitors require a Commercial License.
Methodology: relationships are extracted from SEC filings (named-competitor disclosures) and corroborating sources. Named by the company = explicitly disclosed as a competitor; Inferred = derived from corroborating signals. Confidence reflects evidence strength.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Business Segment Mix vs Peers
Revenue by operating segment or division, as named and reported by each company. Segment names are the filer's own and are not standardized across companies. Do not assume a same-named or similarly-named segment is defined identically between two companies. Shares are of each company's own total revenue and are not required to sum to 100% (intersegment revenue, unallocated items).| Company | Largest Segment |
|---|---|
| Johnson and Johnson | Oncology 29.26 % |
| Procter and Gamble Co | Fabric & Home Care 34.83 % |
| Ecolab Inc | Water Services 50.05 % |
| Colgate palmolive Company | Oral, Personal and Home Care 77.71 % |
| Kimberly clark Corporation | North America (NA) 64.41 % |
Source: operating segment revenue as reported in each company's SEC filings (10-K/10-Q), via the CSIMarket API, leaf-level reportable segments only (parent roll-up segments are excluded where sub-segments are separately disclosed).
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Horizon Kinetics Holding's Productivity vs Peers Comparison
Revenue and income per employee, trailing 12 months, in $; market cap in millions of $| Company | Market Cap | Revenue / Employee | Income / Employee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation | 20 | 878,667 | 528,852 |
| Johnson and Johnson | 663,585 | 695,518 | 149,411 |
| Procter and Gamble Co | 361,062 | 836,846 | 155,231 |
| Ecolab Inc | 79,081 | 354,081 | 44,450 |
| Colgate palmolive Company | 69,372 | 626,369 | 64,345 |
| Kimberly clark Corporation | 32,920 | 460,611 | 55,250 |
| PEERS TOTAL | 1,254,328 | 611,317 | 103,684 |
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Horizon Kinetics Holding's Geographic Revenue Exposure vs Peers
Revenue by country/region as reported in each company's most recent filing. Disclosure granularity varies by filer (some report by country, others by broad region) and is shown as disclosed.| Company | Largest Market |
|---|---|
| Johnson and Johnson | United States 57.42 % |
| Procter and Gamble Co | Non-US 52.05 % |
| Sealed Air Corp | Americas 64.01 % |
| Newell Brands Inc | North America 67.20 % |
| Northern Technologies International Corporation | Inside the USA to Unaffiliated Customers 31.62 % |
Source: revenue geography as reported in each company's SEC filings (10-K/10-Q), via the CSIMarket API. Percentages are of that company's own total consolidated revenue for its most recent reported period.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Position in Industry Market Structure
Market-capitalization share and concentration across all 88 companies in Horizon Kinetics Holding's industry classification, broader than the peer set above. Market cap in millions of $.Horizon Kinetics Holding ranks #0 of 88 companies by market capitalization in its industry, holding 0.00 % of total industry market cap. The industry's Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) is 607, indicating a unconcentrated market structure (U.S. antitrust guidance: below 1,500 unconcentrated, 1,500 to 2,500 moderately concentrated, above 2,500 highly concentrated).
| Rank | Company | Market Cap | Industry Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morgan Stanley | 305,186 | 13.29 % |
| 2 | The Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 282,278 | 12.29 % |
| 3 | Blackrock Inc | 177,737 | 7.74 % |
| 4 | Schwab Charles Corp | 171,118 | 7.45 % |
| 5 | Futu Holdings Ltd | 1,234 | 5.2% |
| 6 | Robinhood Markets Inc | 1,234 | 5.2% |
| 7 | Cme Group Inc | 1,234 | 5.2% |
| 8 | Blackstone Inc | 1,234 | 5.2% |
| 9 | Kkr and co inc | 1,234 | 5.2% |
| 10 | Intercontinental Exchange Inc | 1,234 | 5.2% |
| 0 | Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation | 20 | 0.00 % |
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Source: CSIMarket API (daily market-structure computation) across CSIMarket's industry classification, market capitalization as of 2024-08-01.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Profitability & Cost Structure
Trailing 12-month margins from SEC-filed financials. Operating margin is compared to the Investment Services industry median; gross margin, EBITDA margin and capital intensity are compared to the live industry average (78 companies).| Metric | Company | Industry | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Margin | - | 61.67 % (avg) | - |
| Operating Margin | 24.31 % | industry median | -11.8 pp |
| EBITDA Margin | 55.81 % | 19.52 % (avg) | +36.3 pp |
| Capital Intensity (Capex / Revenue) | 0.00 % | 2.93 % (avg) | -2.9 pp |
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. SG&A and R&D as a share of revenue have limited coverage as this data is backfilled and appear only where reported. Higher capital intensity is not inherently negative; it reflects the industry's asset requirements.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Multi-Year Financial Trajectory
Fiscal-year revenue growth, operating margin, return on invested capital and P/E, as reported in SEC filings.| Metric | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | -12.16 % | -23.23 % | 9.48 % | 7.50 % | -52.61 % | -62.56 % | 360.64 % | 152.35 % |
| Operating Margin | 7.86 % | -4.75 % | -7.23 % | -26.45 % | -52.41 % | -86.10 % | 127.67 % | 29.88 % |
| Return on Invested Capital | 6.35 % | -2.80 % | -4.32 % | -19.95 % | -49.03 % | -51.77 % | 3.56 % | 0.93 % |
| P/E | 14.5x | - | - | - | - | 18.9x | - | - |
Source: CSIMarket API, fiscal-year figures. P/E is this company's own historical ratio at each fiscal year end and can swing sharply around an earnings trough: that is real, not a data error.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Strategic Group Map
Every company in Horizon Kinetics Holding's industry and named-competitor list, plotted by trailing 12-month revenue growth and operating margin. Horizon Kinetics Holding is shown in red; its closest peers by combined growth, margin and ROIC (the Similar Growth & Profitability group above) are labeled.
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. Extreme outlier values (from near-zero-revenue companies) are excluded from the plotted cloud but never from the highlighted company or its labeled peers.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Competitive Forces (Porter's Five Forces)
Only the forces this data can support honestly are shown; the other three are marked as such rather than guessed.| Force | Assessment | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Competitive Rivalry | High | Industry HHI of 607 (see Industry Market Structure & Concentration above) |
| Barriers to Entry | Lower than typical for the industry | Capital intensity (capex / revenue) of 0.00 % vs industry average 2.93 % (see Profitability & Cost Structure above) |
| Supplier Power | Not covered on this page | See Horizon Kinetics Holding's dedicated suppliers page for concentration and dependency data |
| Buyer Power | Not covered on this page | See Horizon Kinetics Holding's dedicated customers page for concentration and dependency data |
| Threat of Substitutes | - | No systematic data source for cross-product substitution exists in this system; not estimated |
Note: this is a partial, data-grounded application of the framework, not a complete strategic assessment. Rivalry and barriers-to-entry readings are mechanical translations of the HHI and capital-intensity figures shown elsewhere on this page, not independent judgments.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Industry Attractiveness & Competitive Strength
A CSIMarket composite, not a standard field: each axis is an equal-weighted average of three factors already shown elsewhere on this page (industry growth, industry profitability and rivalry for attractiveness; relative market share, profitability and growth vs industry for strength). Disclosed as a designed methodology, not a precision measurement.
Horizon Kinetics Holding falls in the Medium attractiveness / Medium strength cell: Selective.
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. Each axis score is a simple 1(low)/2(medium)/3(high) average across its three inputs -- a transparent, disclosed simplification, not a validated academic scoring model.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's SWOT
Every point below is a fixed rule applied to a metric already shown elsewhere on this page (Market Structure, Profitability, Valuation, Run-Rate, Stock Performance, Quality Breadth) not an independent strategic assessment. A blank quadrant means no rule was met, not that none apply.Strengths
- Latest-quarter revenue run-rate is accelerating (+7.0% annualized vs trailing 12 months).
- Outperforming the U.S.A. 500 over the trailing 12 months.
Weaknesses
- Operating margin 11.8 points below the industry median.
- Piotroski F-Score of 2 or below, the standard financial-distress signal.
Opportunities
No rule matched.
Threats
No rule matched.
Methodology: mechanical, rule-based SWOT. Each bullet reuses a figure already sourced and cited elsewhere on this page; nothing here is generated narrative or independent analyst judgment.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Financial Strength vs Peers Comparison
Quick ratio, working capital, debt to equity and asset turnover, trailing 12 months| Company | Quick Ratio | Working Capital | Debt / Equity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation | 41.15 | 10.36 | - |
| Johnson and Johnson | 0.37 | 1.05 | 0.60 |
| Procter and Gamble Co | 0.25 | 0.71 | 0.71 |
| Ecolab Inc | 0.38 | 1.38 | 1.29 |
| Colgate palmolive Company | 0.21 | 0.95 | 12.14 |
| Kimberly clark Corporation | 0.10 | 0.80 | 4.08 |
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Quick ratio = cash / current liabilities; working capital ratio = current assets / current liabilities; asset turnover = revenue / total assets. Peers in the Blank Checks industry are excluded.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Revenue and Income Growth vs Peers
Quarterly revenue and net income growth, year over year and quarter over quarter| Company | Period | Revenue Y/Y | Income Y/Y |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation | Q2 2026 | -3.7 % | - |
| Johnson and Johnson | Q2 2026 | +6.6 % | -0.1 % |
| Procter and Gamble Co | Q2 2026 | +1.5 % | -15.0 % |
| Ecolab Inc | Q2 2026 | +13.5 % | +1.9 % |
| Colgate palmolive Company | Q2 2026 | +4.9 % | -7.0 % |
| Kimberly clark Corporation | Q2 2026 | +0.6 % | -31.6 % |
| PEERS TOTAL | -6.3 % | +18.2 % |
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Growth is shown only where both periods are positive. Peers in the Blank Checks industry are excluded.
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Peers' Costs of Sales and Capital Expenditures
Context for revenue growth: peer costs and capex, year over year and quarter over quarter| Company | Period | Costs Y/Y | Capex Y/Y |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation | Q2 2026 | - | - |
| Johnson and Johnson | Q2 2026 | +5.5 % | +26.7 % |
| Procter and Gamble Co | Q2 2026 | +2.7 % | +2.7 % |
| Ecolab Inc | Q2 2026 | +11.1 % | +10.8 % |
| Colgate palmolive Company | Q2 2026 | +1.2 % | +18.5 % |
| Kimberly clark Corporation | Q2 2026 | -4.5 % | +78.7 % |
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Horizon Kinetics Holding's Returns and Turnover vs Peers
ROA, ROI and ROE (trailing 12 months), receivables and inventory turnover| Company | ROA | ROI | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation | 2.05% | 2.05% | 11.48% |
| Johnson and Johnson | 10.60% | 13.30% | 25.74% |
| Procter and Gamble Co | 12.72% | 17.81% | 30.05% |
| Ecolab Inc | 8.24% | 9.11% | 21.51% |
| Colgate palmolive Company | 12.86% | 19.90% | 325.73% |
| Kimberly clark Corporation | 11.41% | 19.70% | 115.54% |
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ROA = net income / total assets; ROI = net income / investments; ROE = net income / equity; turnover ratios use trailing 12 month revenue (receivables) and cost of sales (inventory).
Horizon Kinetics Holding's Valuation vs Peers
P/E, price to sales, PEG, price to cash flow and price to book| Company | P/E | Price / Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation | 0.42 | 0.28 |
| Johnson and Johnson | 31.48 | 6.78 |
| Procter and Gamble Co | 22.62 | 4.15 |
| Ecolab Inc | 37.59 | 4.65 |
| Colgate palmolive Company | 34.26 | 3.30 |
| Kimberly clark Corporation | 16.80 | 1.99 |
| PEERS AVERAGE | 22.08 | 3.75 |
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P/E = price / diluted EPS (trailing 12 months); PEG = P/E divided by EPS growth; the average row divides the peers' combined market cap by their combined income, sales, cash flow and equity.