UG vs. SHOT, REV, CL, EL, HLN, KVUE, ELF, COTY, NTCOY, and IPAR
Should you be buying United-Guardian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United-Guardian include Safety Shot (SHOT), Revlon (REV), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Haleon (HLN), Kenvue (KVUE), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Coty (COTY), Natura &Co (NTCOY), and Inter Parfums (IPAR). These companies are all part of the "toilet preparations" industry.
United-Guardian (NASDAQ:UG) and Safety Shot (NASDAQ:SHOT) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
United-Guardian received 184 more outperform votes than Safety Shot when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Safety Shot had 7 more articles in the media than United-Guardian. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Safety Shot and 1 mentions for United-Guardian. United-Guardian's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Safety Shot'saverage media sentiment score.
United-Guardian has a net margin of 23.77% compared to Safety Shot's net margin of -367.77%. United-Guardian's return on equity of 25.18% beat Safety Shot's return on equity.
United-Guardian has higher revenue and earnings than Safety Shot. Safety Shot is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United-Guardian, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
23.2% of United-Guardian shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.6% of Safety Shot shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.0% of United-Guardian shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.1% of Safety Shot shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
United-Guardian has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Safety Shot has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
United-Guardian beats Safety Shot on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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