EL vs. IPAR, PBH, HLF, USNA, NUS, NATR, MED, VERU, CL, and HLN
Should you be buying Estée Lauder Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Estée Lauder Companies include Inter Parfums (IPAR), Prestige Consumer Healthcare (PBH), Herbalife (HLF), USANA Health Sciences (USNA), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Nature's Sunshine Products (NATR), Medifast (MED), Veru (VERU), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), and Haleon (HLN).
Inter Parfums (NASDAQ:IPAR) and Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE:EL) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Inter Parfums has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Estée Lauder Companies has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Inter Parfums presently has a consensus price target of $178.67, suggesting a potential upside of 49.16%. Estée Lauder Companies has a consensus price target of $160.92, suggesting a potential upside of 30.44%. Given Estée Lauder Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Inter Parfums is more favorable than Estée Lauder Companies.
Inter Parfums pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Estée Lauder Companies pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Inter Parfums pays out 69.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Estée Lauder Companies pays out 148.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Inter Parfums has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and Estée Lauder Companies has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Inter Parfums is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
55.6% of Inter Parfums shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.2% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 43.9% of Inter Parfums shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Estée Lauder Companies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Estée Lauder Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Inter Parfums. Inter Parfums is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Estée Lauder Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Estée Lauder Companies received 718 more outperform votes than Inter Parfums when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.30% of users gave Estée Lauder Companies an outperform vote while only 64.32% of users gave Inter Parfums an outperform vote.
Inter Parfums has a net margin of 10.50% compared to Inter Parfums' net margin of 4.18%. Estée Lauder Companies' return on equity of 15.85% beat Inter Parfums' return on equity.
In the previous week, Estée Lauder Companies had 9 more articles in the media than Inter Parfums. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Estée Lauder Companies and 6 mentions for Inter Parfums. Estée Lauder Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Inter Parfums' score of 0.55 indicating that Inter Parfums is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Inter Parfums beats Estée Lauder Companies on 13 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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